Figure 1.33

Six-Pattern

All conducting figures by Michael Paolantonio

Repeats and Endings

Numerous expedient shortcuts evolved to facilitate writing music efficiently, as
well as eliminating the redundancy of writing a given passage over again. Specific
symbols, called

repeat signs

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or

repeats

, came into use whereby a composer could

indicate the repetition of a measure, a group of measures, or an entire passage.

Figure 1.34

Repeats, Measure Repeats, Section Repeats

9. Special symbols indicating that

segments of the music
previously performed are to be
repeated.

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