Wrong verse highlighted after master repeat

2025-03-28 02:58 AM

I'm working with a song which begins with a two-measure master repeat, followed by the verses, of which there are two. Without fail, when playing, it highlights the lyrics of the second verse. At the end of the piece is a Da Capo, which returns playback to the beginning where the first two measures of the master repeat play just ONCE, without repetition, then plays thru to the end for the second verse, which is highlighted a second time. As a workaround, I tried adding a third verse, making the first verse empty and moving the two verses down to the 2nd and 3rd position, thinking that if it was going to highlight the 2nd verse instead of the first, then it would in reality be highlighting the correct one. Nope! It highlighted the lyrics of the last verse (the true 2nd verse) on both passes. Back to square.

So.... I replaced the master repeat with a local repeat (2) and verse 1 is highlighted. Now when playback hits the Da Capo at the end, it returns to the beginning and plays the two measure local repeat twice, as desired, BUT on this second pass, the second verse is NOT highlighted... the first verse is highlighted for the second time. The playback is correct, with the exception of the wrong verse being lit on the second pass.

Is this a common quirk, and if so, has anyone found a workaround solution?

Re: Wrong verse highlighted after master repeat

Reply #1 – 2025-03-28 01:38 PM

It would be hard to tell for sure without seeing the actual score, but I am betting that it has to do with either using or not using special bar lines at certain spots in your score. There are people here who are experts at getting repeats and flow control to do their bidding. I am not one of those people unfortunately.

Re: Wrong verse highlighted after master repeat

Reply #2 – 2025-03-28 03:38 PM

It's notorious that NWC after the D.C. or D.S. does not applies the master repeats.
Well, that's one of the two "standards" and has its reasons.

What happens with the lyrics looks instead as a bug.
I'm not one of the experts mentioned by Mike but I can suggest a workaround as follows.

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