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 Quick Question: When numbering your measures, do you count a pickup note as #1?
Author: Ashley91489 
Date:   2007-04-27 22:29

I have to number my measures for solo and ensemble and I wasn't sure if you would do a pickup note as measure 1 or the first full measure as 1.

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 Re: Quick Question: When numbering your measures, do you count a pickup note as #1?
Author: Mike S. 
Date:   2007-04-27 22:52

I don't know. When I did the Mozart Concerto k622 mvt. 1 for solo and ensemble contest a few months ago, I started numbering at the first measure that I came in, but I was also able to tell the judge when I handed it to her.

-Mike
Recorders(SSAT), piccolo/flute/alto flute, oboe, clarinets(Eb/Bb/bass), saxophones(SATB)

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 Re: Quick Question: When numbering your measures, do you count a pickup note as #1?
Author: Tobin 
Date:   2007-04-27 23:27

Pickup notes do not constitute a measure. The first full measure AFTER the pickup(s) is no. 1

James

Gnothi Seauton

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 Re: Quick Question: When numbering your measures, do you count a pickup note as #1?
Author: LonDear 
Date:   2007-04-28 14:47

They can go either way. Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Cinderella starts the pickups in bar one. I also found some published clarinet quartets where the pickups start in bar zero. As long as everyone who needs to know knows the system, it doesn't matter.

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 Re: Quick Question: When numbering your measures, do you count a pickup note as #1?
Author: Tobin 
Date:   2007-04-28 15:32

Some publishers are better than others.

If the opening segment has rests before the pickup, and the total of the rests and the notes equals a measure...then you have a measure.

Otherwise it does not count as a measure. Just because someone has published a mistake doesn't mean that it is correct.

James

PS...good luck with your peformance!

Gnothi Seauton

Post Edited (2007-04-28 15:34)

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 Re: Quick Question: When numbering your measures, do you count a pickup note as #1?
Author: diz 
Date:   2007-04-29 23:00

Interestingly, Finale handles pick up measures by numbering the "pick up bar" as #1, then the first full bar as "1" ...

Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.

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 Re: Quick Question: When numbering your measures, do you count a pickup note as
Author: Brenda 2017
Date:   2007-05-01 18:49

This is one of the questions in the RCM's theory exam. We're supposed to know that the first FULL measure is #1 but the RCM throws it in to see who gets tripped up.



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