Author: hautbois
Date: 2008-05-09 22:06
If I understand your questions, the first ending measures are not usually numbered, and the second ending measures start with the next number after the last bar before the first ending. The portion of the piece which is repeated is not re-numbered; the numbers used will be the numbers from the first play-through, whether it is a repeat on a DS, DC, or regular repeat sign. A coda is numbered with numbers commencing after the last pre-coda measure. The fact that your group may be making cuts in the music should not affect the numbering, as the conductor's score, if numbered, is numbered for the whole work to be played. I think you are referring to alternate endings, one of which is a Coda. I have not taken notice of the numbering in such situations (though they come up from time to time in classical music -- for example, alternate endings for when the work is to be performed in concert, or is to be accompanying a ballet). See how the conductor's score is numbered for that. Caveat: some multi-movement works number each movement commencing with the number 'one'; others continue the numbering through all the movements and do not revert to the number 'one' with each movement.
As a practical matter, since it is so easy to get off in the numbering of the measures by, for example, miscounting a rest, it would be advisable to take a look at the conductor's score before rehearsal or during the break, and
record the numbers of various measures throughout the work, so that you will know if you are numbering accurately.
Elizabeth
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