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Re: \partial and measure numbers
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David Kastrup |
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Re: \partial and measure numbers |
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Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:58:41 +0200 |
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"N. Andrew Walsh" <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi fff,
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 2:25 PM foxfanfare <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The traditional behavior is to not count a partial measure in the total, so
>> yes it should be counted as "0". If you want to count it, you should just
>> add \set Score.currentBarNumber = #2 before your first measure.
>>
>
> huh. That's odd. For some reason I always counted pickup measures as bar 1
> in my scores. Far out. OK, thanks for clarifying.
You can repeat an 8-bar (say) phrase seamlessly even with pickup since
pickup and last measure (usually) add up to one complete bar. Giving
both pickup and last measure a number of its own would be detrimental to
this kind of reckoning.
--
David Kastrup