on 5/1/02 8:48 AM, Robert Patterson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Concerning dotted 16ths, I believe one of the references is fairly clear about > it. I know David Bailey said Gardner Read was silent, but I thought I > remembered > something in there about it nevertheless. If not there then in Kurt Stone. > (Unfortunately those reference books are not here at this computer.) > > At any rate, what they are fairly clear about is that you should *not* use > dotted rests to fill beats, either before or after. The closest examples in > Ross > are some of the examples on p. 180. (These involve 8th & 4ters rather than > 16ths.) > > This does not mean I necessarily agree with the references, however. > Especially > in the case of 16ths and smaller, there has been a movement among contemporary > composers towards filling with dotted rests on either side of the beat. Doing > so > reduces clutter and leaves room for things like clef changes (or glisses, or > any > number of other effect notations.) > > -- > Robert Patterson
Gardner Read, p. 119 doesn't get too specific: "Augmentation dots may be used in conjunction with a rest in the same way they are used for notes themselves." This would seem to allow for the dotted eighth rest. Above, on the same page he speaks to the use of dots on notes "when their meaning is absolutely clear". I personally strive for a combination of the greatest clarity of the beat (esp. at the halfway point in a bar) and the greatest reducton in clutter. Don Hart _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
