At 9:35 PM +0100 1/18/10, Jari Williamsson wrote:
Hello!
This is the situation: A part (Tchaikowsky) has a 4 measure cut from
the music, so the part goes ...53, 54, 55 and then directly to
measure 60. The measure number 60 is notated in the middle of the
system where the jump occurs.
Is there any standard symbol when measure numbers are cut from the
part, to instruct the player that the measure numbering is out of
sync there?
I was thinking of using a forward arrow pointing to the extra measure number?
This is very typical of musical theater orchestrations. After many
years, there can be a mish-mash of missing bar numbers, rehearsal
letters in one number but not in the next, and so on. There is never
any indication for the player.
My suggestion would be an asterisk with a brief note at the bottom of
the page. The fact of the elision, after all, means nothing to the
player who is reading the part, only when the conductor wants to
start at a particular measure.
In "King & I" there was a doozy, where some parts had a repeat,
others did not, and they didn't match the Piano-Conductor score. It
probably took us 15 minutes and a lot of frustration to figure out a
cut that the stage director wanted!
John
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Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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