Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
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?
It seems to me that it would be the exact same problem as using only a
half note rest in a 4/4 measure to indicate that sometimes there are two
beats of pitch in the other half, and other times, that there is no
music at all. If one is going to standardize on a single glyph to
indicate that a measure is empty, a whole rest is too short to do that,
in my opinion.
I would opt for a shortened version of the multiple measure rest.
Without a number overhead (or with a 1) it would be a single measure
entirely silent, and with numbers it would indicate multiple measures of
rest.
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David H. Bailey
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