Dear Peter, The word "repeat" is often used incorrectly, but I wouldn't say that Americans misuse it any more than anyone else. If you repeat something, you do it again, so if you repeat a piece of music, you play it twice. That means that if you repeat it twice, you will play it three times. The trouble is, when a piece is played through a lot of times, such that there are many repeats, some people use the word "repeat" carelessly for the number of times the music is played. To put correct usage into a formula, "repeat n times = play (n+1) times".
In rehearsal I tend to keep my council over this particular quirk of language, but my experience is, that, when someone uses the word "repeat" incorrectly, and the mistake is pointed out to them, they accept they were wrong, and correct it next time - on the repeat, as it were. Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Nightingale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:04 AM Subject: [LUTE] Fuenllana Tan que vivray > (Do I remember > correctly that "repeat n times" in the USA is the same as "repeat n+1 > times" in GB?) > Thanks, > Peter. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
