Originally Posted by
Keith88
A D.S. al Fine within a coda! Jer, this is a most imaginative approach. I think that Cyrille's suggestion for an outro rehearsal mark would be a useful addition to the editor. Also, as I sometimes use the same material as an intro and an outro, it might be useful to have an intro-outro rehearsal mark as well.
Our problems seem to emanate from the limitation of the number of lines that an iRP chart can have. This leads to the confusion around the use of the coda mark. Normally, a coda is only played once in a music score, at the very end. However, many charts use D.C (or D.S.) al Coda within them in order to avoid repeating a line or two; in this case the "coda" is played each time the chart is run through, making the "coda" part of each repetition instead of a true coda section. I've often rewritten charts that I have downloaded to remove the coda sign and replace it by a third ending when I have the space to do so. If our charts could vertically scroll, so that we could have more than thirteen lines in a chart, many of our problems with codas, repeats, and the like would disappear.
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