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Alternate Endings:
Alternate endings provides the author of the music with yet another short-hand method of reducing the amount of music that is required to be written within the score.

If alternate endings did not exist, some scores could be as much as 10 or 12 pages rather than 2 or 3 pages.

Alternate Endings Used To Save Score Space:
Alternate endings are most effectively used when major portions of the the song remain the same and the music arranger wants to save space in the score. They are used like Repeats, in fact they do use repeat symbols as part of the ending.