Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2012-11-14 21:57
Paul Aviles wrote:
> Seriously though, I heard something about that years ago.
> There IS some symmetry thingy (of the Baroque?) that
> necessitates having to make up for what is not present in the
> beginning.
>
If the end needs to dovetail for any reason with the beginning, it's necessary to have the end fit an opening pickup (incomplete measure), for instance at the end of the trio of a minuet or other ABA form or the end of a binary form that repeats. The custom of balancing the beginning and the end would have started from this kind of formal issue. Publishers now are fairly causal about it - I've seen lots of student material where the pick-up "fits" with the last measure, but it isn't hard to find music that fills in the last measure with rests regardless of an incomplete first bar.
No one hears the difference - if there's no connection issue, it's a strictly visual element of music engraving.
Karl
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