Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> writes: > There is more to music than is contained in the notes. > Gustav Mahler. This is, of course, true, but there is nothing contained in the repeat sign beyond the instruction to repeat a passage. If a composer considered the repeat optional, he was at liberty to specify that. >... You are assuming it is easy to divine the composer's intention. > >If it were, then we shouldn't have HIP versions of Beethoven 9 with very >different tempos for the tenor solo - the scholars don't agree about the >interpretation of Beethoven's metronome marks. Again, there may be reasonable scholarly disagreements on such matters, but that has nothing to do with the instruction to repeat, which is unambiguous. -Jocelyn Wang Culver Chamber Music Series Come see our web page: www.bigfoot.com/~CulverMusic