On Jun 4, 2007, at 6:28 AM, Stephen Kenyon wrote: > Hello again. If a piece of lute tab ends with two vertical spaced > lines > with each horizontal line having a dot either side of it, does that > mean > a repeat as in standard notation?
Not necessarily. The two vertical lines denote the end of a section, which you can repeat or not as you think fit. If the section following is an embellished version of the section just played, then there is no need to repeat it, but if a repeat is not written out, then you might want to play the section again, with some ornaments of your own thrown in, but don't absolutely have to. The fact that so many repeat sections are written out tells me that repeating the sections was generally a desirable move. That's my take on it. David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
