On 23.04.2006 John Howell wrote:
At 9:41 PM +0200 4/23/06, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
In a 4/2 measure the whole measure rest is a double whole rest. I know how to
get that.
I thought the convention of a single whole rest representing one measure's rest
in any meter applied to such augmented meters as well.
Definitely not! Have a look into any quality modern edition of 17th
century music in large meters. Double whole rests for whole measures in
4/2 and 3/1.
However, in a piece in 4/2 the multi-measure rest symbols should be twice the
value compared to 4/4. That means that the symbols for 4 measures should be
those normally used for 8 measures.
I'm afraid you lost me. The multi-measure rest symbol is a fat line (broken or
unbroken) with a stroke at either end, right? And it represents the number of
measures, not the number of beats? So why should it be different?
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I mean the (optional) combinations of double
whole rests and whole rests used for multimeasure rests with up to 8
measures. Standard is to use those up to 8 measures, and then start
using the fat line for MM rests with more than 8 measures.
I think it is fine in this case to just use the latter for all MM rests,
but I'd really like to know whether this is possible.
Johannes
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