On Wed, 1 May 2002 19:37:59 -0400, it was said >I have to say, that the difference to my ear between an isolated >on-beat eighth note and an isolated on-beat sixteenth note is too >small for me to bother with, and so that notation rarely shows up in >my work. I prefer to write eighth-note, eighth-note-rest rather than >sixteenth-note followed by any combination of rests.
In principle I agree with you, although in general I'm not asking about isolated (in the large sense) sixteenths, but long syncopated passages. It seems to me that sometimes keeping a consistent note value makes a phrase easier to read, so if there are a lot of 1/16-based syncopations, it looks better to keep the 1/16 even when it falls on the beat and a staccato 1/8th would do as well strictly in terms of sound. Ken _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
