The work in question is most definitely in two groups of 3 beats
each (although it often hemiolas into 3/2 temporarily).
I just wasn't certain, in 6/4, whether five beats rest should
generally be a dotted half plus two quarters or a dotted half plus
a half. The latter is easy to read,
My 2c: as long as it's not misleading, isn't that the point?
but I suspect that Johannes is indeed on target with his asstertion
that the former is most correct?
That may be so, but see above.
Also, for another example: two beats rest, followed by a quarter
note, quarter note, half note. Should the rest(s) be two quarter
rests, or will a half suffice?
Again I say, if it's clear and easy, it's clear and easy. I can
think of situations in which being correct according to older
practice would be more clear, but language (written and spoken, and
symbolic like written music) changes and tends towards efficiency and
simplicity, and I'm usually for it.
Chuck
My principal composition teacher, the late Nelson Keyes, was always
quite irked when he would see a half rest in 3/4 in a published
work, but it is a rule that is often broken. I don't know if this
is the same type of situation.
Please don't let me down this time, folks!
Raymond Horton
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