On 14 Dec 2005 at 20:48, Darcy James Argue wrote: > It is. The dotted half rest + fermatta in the resting gives maximal > rhythmic clarity (short of cueing the actual notes). It just looks > odd, since it's not usually used in 4/4. > > If the consensus is that the dotted half + fermatta looks odd enough > (or inelegant enough) to actually _throw_ people, then I'll use cue > notes, as Bill suggested.
I don't know what musical tradition you're writing in here, but as a classical musician, I don't see a darned thing strange or odd about it. My only worry is that people could miss the dot on the rest, and that most people's eyes kind of glaze over when they see half and whole rests, so they figure out the value from context, not from actually perceiving the shape of the rest. In this case, it should be really easy to figure out, so I wouldn't even worry about the dot. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
