on 5/2/02 6:59 AM, Christopher BJ Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

>> If we are not ever to syncopate rests, then I gather that the following:
>> 16th-note/8th-rest/16th-note is never to be written?  What's up with
>> that, it's written all the time.
>> I very rarely see that syncopation written
>> 16th-note/16th-rest/16th-rest/16th-note.
> 
> 
> Yet you never see 1/4 note, 1/2 rest, 1/4 note.

That covers up the halfway point of the bar.  David's example keeps the beat
intact.  

Factors like tempo and repetitiveness could make me go either way on the
16th figure, but failure to clearly define the halfway point of the bar, to
me, is the the greater sin.

Don Hart

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