Re: Ottava repeats

[Hans Aberg]

On 13 Oct 2010, at 18:54, James wrote:

> > Suppose a repeat might/should be played one octave higher, is there a
> > way to notate it without expanding it?
>
> The French composer (?) Yann Tiersen does this quite a lot with his  
> music and he just places the ottava bracket all along the whole  
> repeated section but writes it in the lower range first.

This confuses me: where does the ottava bracket start, if it is  
written in the lower range first?

> He doesn't even bother as far as I can see in the limited scores I  
> have seen, to tell the player to play it 'normal' first and then 'an  
> octave higher' the next time round. It is assumed I suppose.


I need it to be clear somehow. But in my example, it is style, so I  
might skip it altogether.