Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 23.10.2006 dhbailey wrote:
I've never understood the need for a different whole-rest for empty
measures in meters larger than 4/4. We have no problem using them in
meters smaller than 4/4, so why not just keep the traditional
whole-rest for all meters?
Because otherwise you get the exact same rest representing both a half
measure and a full measure, and I certainly would find that very confusing.
Johannes
That's the part which baffles me -- when I see a single rest in an
otherwise empty measure I assume it's the full measure since there's
nothing else to play.
If there's a rest for a half-measure, there's stuff in the other
half-measure to play.
When I see notes and rests in a measure I play them, when I see nothing
but a rest in a measure I play nothing.
I realize that for many people the traditions of the genre or period are
very important, and I'm not meaning to suggest that there's anything
foolish about any of them, just that I find it curious.
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David H. Bailey
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