On 26.09.2015 12:36, Wols Lists wrote:
On 26/09/15 08:31, Andrew Bernard wrote:
However, you don’t often see scores with every barline numbered, and generally
publishers only print the bar number at the start of each line, and normally
leaving out 1.
Actually, printing bar numbers at the start of each line is NOT general
practice.
‘General practice’ doesn’t mean that every single score has it.
Yes I think it's great, and leave it there when I'm redoing
parts, but I've almost never seen it in any music I've been given to play.
Which seems to be a particularity of that domain in which you happen to
make music. True, it didn’t become common until some time in the 20th
century – leaving us to wonder how on earth ensemble rehearsals were
done before, if often there were no rehearsal marks either. And nowadays
some publishers/editors flood their scores with bar numbers for every
second or even every single measure, which I find aesthetically somewhat
off-putting and practically lazy: a little mind training is always good.
Yours, Simon
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