thanks Brian. authoritative and helpful. -- Graham On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 18:13 +0000, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 17:38 01/02/2016 +0000, Graham King wrote: > >... for the first time ever, needed to use Da Capo al Fine. [...] > >If it passes expert inspection, it might make a useful snippet. If > >not, I'd like to know how it should be improved. (In particular, I'm > >not sure about the typographical standards for "fine") > > "Fine" always has an initial capital, doesn't it? > > Elaine Gould says (p. 240): > >_Da Capo_, _Dal Segno_, and _Fine_ instructions are written in a > >conspicuous font, to differentiate them from surrounding text: in a > >vocal score or orchestral part this might be italic, otherwise bold. > >Place them above the top stave of a vocal score; below the stave of > >a single-line part; below the bottom stave of a score or braced part. > > > >A thin double barline, rather than a final double barline, marks the > >written end of the music when this is not the end of the piece. > > > >Only the _Fine_ bar, the actual end of the piece, takes a final > >double barline. This is regardless of whether the _Fine_ is a whole > >or an incomplete bar. > > Her example stacks "_D.C._" above "_al Fine_" - presumably to reduce > the horizontal extent of the text. > > Brian Barker >
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