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HOW TO WRITE MUSIC
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Extracting a Single Part.50.—In copying out a single part Extracting from a score, full or short, care must be taken in abbreviating a number of measures' rest. The usual way of doing this is to write the number of measures over a single measure, thus:

\compressMMRests { \omit Score.Clef \omit Score.TimeSignature R1*25 }

Fig. 39.

But if a pause occurs in any of the other parts of the score this will not do. The number of bars before the pause must be counted, and the pause—or pauses—shown in the abbreviation as follows, assuming it to occur in the thirteenth bar:

\compressMMRests { \omit Score.Clef \omit Score.TimeSignature R1*12 R1\fermata R1*12 }

Fig. 40.

Accidentals51.—The necessity for inserting accidentals in a part-copy which may not appear in a short-score, has just been pointed out. Yet the musical Hercules is beset with a Charybdis as well as a Scylla. He may be drawn into the bad and very irritating modern habit of using accidentals which are not really called for. Accidentals where unnecessary are doubtless used with the object of making assurance doubly sure. They have precisely the reverse effect, besides being uncomplimentary—to put it mildly—to the intelligence