![]() Which from the point of view of an engraver may well make sense - after it is a visually separate entity on the page at a completely different location - though to me that's a bit like saying each page of a book begins a new paragraph. So I hunted around for how a few other sources define a system and was surprised to see many of them simply consider it to be a "group of staves" - but then you realise that they also define a staff (or stave) as being one horizontal line on a single page, hence in my example of 20 measures split into 2 horizontal groups of 10, they'd consider that to be two different staves, even if represents 20 successive measures all played by the same instrument. But I could see that if you've finished typesetting a score, you're 100% happy with how the measures are laid out into systems etc., then just want to add an additional note between some instrument names on system 3, it might be useful to attach that text to the system itself. The only real issue would be if it were genuinely useful to attach text to a specific system (that stayed where it was regardless of whatever measures or staves happened to be in that system), and that is potentially useful for extra text relating to instrument names (as typically shown at the beginning of a system), but even then you wouldn't ideally want to specify "system 3 should always show this information about what instruments are playing", rather it should be specified as part of the "instrument names" configuration that could potentially change at various points throughout the score. To me "system" has nothing to do with the whole ensemble - it's very common for a given system to show only the staves of instruments that happen to have any notes, for a start, and even a part extract score has systems.īut look if "system directions" is commonly understood to mean ensemble/tutti directions then fine, it just seems like a less than ideal (ab)use of the term "system". ![]() it's a layout artifact only - individual measures might move around between systems depending on what sort of score you're looking at. If you have 20 measures of music and the first 10 are laid out across in one row, taking up the full width of the page, that's one system, then if the second 10 are laid out across in a row underneath that (or potentially on the next page), that's the next system.
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