Dear Stephen, Not necessarily. What you describe might just be a decorative way to finish the piece. To decide whether to repeat or not, you need to use some common sense: if the piece is a fantasy, the chances are you shouldn't repeat; if it is a dance section, a repeat is almost certainly required. Sometimes it's impossible to be certain.
There is a sign which was commonly used to show repeats. It's called a signum congruentiae, and looks like a question mark with two dots at the bottom. As with Spanish question marks, you sometimes see the signum congruentiae upside down. It is literally a sign which marks the point where two or more voices come together, but it was used by Dowland and others to show repeats. Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Kenyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:28 AM Subject: [LUTE] Slightly basic question > 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? > > Thanks... To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
