The band my wife and I play in gets music in all kinds of 'formats'.

Intro, no intro, repeats dropped/moved. We get the music as is, sometimes it's marked as to A B B or such. Failing that it's from here to there, get out the pencil and mark this in. Then you pencil in the letter parts, cross things out etc...

Of course the prof. who runs the program is teaching us, then the audience.

There is nothing standard in there. If you purchase band music for some arrangement then it is always there, and they use their own format. But when the music is close to 100 years old, and published 30 years ago, and we are run by a prof. then as long as he's teaching he figures it's fair game to copy and mark things up.

But, as I said, there seems to be NO standard. 15 to 18 songs at the start, pared to 12 or so for the program.

I don't get my shorts in any kind of knot over this. Just the pencil and eraser. We kind of are used to the fact the pencil is as important as the instrument you brought. If you don't have both...:)

John Conley
Musica est vita