From the course: Learning Music Notation
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DC and DS repeats
- [Narrator] When long sections of music are repeated, and using repeat bar lines gets overly complicated, you either need to notate the music without repeats or look for other options. When that problem occurs, you might consider using text repeats. So da capo and dal segno repeats, really, have been around for a long time and were used with arias and minuets from orchestral music and other things like that. And they're used where large sections of music are getting repeated. Now the first one we're gonna take a look at is called a DC or da capo, which literally means "the head." So when this type of repeat occurs, you're playing through the music and when you get to the DC, you simply return to the very top and start to repeat that from the top until you see other instructions that tell you where to go. Now, an example of that kind would be a DC al fee-nee or a da capo al fee-nay. So in this case we're gonna play the music, when we get to the fine the first time, we're gonna keep…
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