How to indicate that student can play either ending, not both

• Jan 18, 2017 - 02:31

A practice piece has two, two measure alternative endings. Each features a different style, and either one or the other is played (player's choice), but not both. Can I indicate this on the score? If so, how?

I've looked around for an answer, but I don't even know how to properly formulate my question for a computer search of the topics here. Hopefully I'm being clear enough for a real person to understand what I need.


Comments

It's not really a standard notation, but if I needed to convey something like that, I'd use voltas to indicate the endings, then just add staff text to say "choose either ending" or whatever you think might be clear to the player.

I would do something similar if there is no standard. I would put an "optional to coda", then a fine and a coda. In the score notes I would explain this. It might be neater depending on the length of the optional section.

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