D.S., D.C., and the repeats

• Sep 19, 2017 - 00:40

Is there a way to make any of the D.S. or D.C. commands also include the repeats the 2nd time through. The piece I created needs to loop the entire thing except the very first measure and whenever i try the D.S. or the D.C. and others it skips the repeats already included. Thanks for the help.


Comments

At this time there is no such option. It comes up occasionally on the forums so I believe it may be time to consider allowing such an option because quite a few people would like it.
For myself I am plenty satisfied when I hear the same music three times in the same piece and do not crave a fourth time, indeed I really really don't want it. I like the convention (which is very old) that skips repeats in da capo sections. I can imagine exceptions in vocal music though where the text would be different in the fourth go around. And there is the occasional composer who demands such a repeat in words, e.g. Beethoven in one of the op. 59 quartets, the e-minor (in the scherzo) if I remember correctly--a demand that all performances I have heard so far have ignored BTW.

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