On Mar 18, 2005, at 10:18 AM, John Howell wrote:
At 7:53 AM -0500 3/18/05, Eric Dussault wrote:
Thanks everyone for your opinions. It fortunately confirms the
practice I always did.
There is one situation where I don't know for sure what to do :
considering that the duration of the anacrusis is substracted to the
last measure, what are you doing when you have a five quarter notes
anacrusis and that the last measure has notes to fill, let's say, a
half note? There is then not enough beats left on the measure to
substract 5 quarter notes.
I consider that "rule" an anachronism, similar to the stacking up of
breve and semibreve rests in an incomprehensible pile instead of
simply writing in |----21----| ! Others may not agree, but the layout
has to fit the music, not the other way around, and not all music
lends itself to following that "rule."
Umm, I was about to say the same thing, but John beat me to it.
Christopher
(that is to say, "Me, too!")
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