Re: Multiple repeats

[Mats Bengtsson]

Kees van den Doel wrote:
> OK, let me rephrase (and this time in the right list, sorry): is the way to 
> indicate
> a 4 times repeated set of bars "\repeat volta 4 {notes}", followed by a manual 
> annotation
> indicating "repeat 4 times"  or is there a better method?
>   
As far as I know, there's no well-established typesetting practice
for how to indicate it in a printed score, which is one reason that
LilyPond doesn't typeset the number. So, it's up to you to find a
notation that you think is understandable for the musicians you
have in mind, for example following the suggestions from Kieren.

  /Mats
> Kees
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Francisco Vila <address@hidden>
> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009 12:54 am
> Subject: Re: Multiple repeats
> To: Kees van den Doel <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
>   
> > 2009/3/2 Kees van den Doel <address@hidden>:
> >     
> > > How to write multiple repeats? \repeat volta 4 {..} does not 
> > >       
> > indicate that there is more that 1 repeat.
> >     
> > > I'm happy to just write "4X" at the end but am I missing 
> > >       
> > something? What's the purpose of the
> >     
> > > number in the \repeat volta command?
> > >       
> > The documentation explains it fairly well and offers examples.
> > Alternatives and volta brackets are easy to typeset this way.
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Long-
> > repeats#Normal-repeats
> >
> > MIDI reflects repeats.
> >
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