At 04:35 PM 10/23/06 -0400, dhbailey wrote: >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.
Yes, I agree. It seems this complaint may be a false expectation of specificity, unless it's a conscious imitation of an earlier style. An empty measure may as well contain no rest (some composers do that) or simply white space (others do that). If a notational style is being emulated, sure, include the funky rests. But I actually remember being mocked by the brass players in an ensemble when I used larger rest values early in my copying life. I was told to 'just write a doggone (euphemized) whole rest in the measure, what are we, stupid?' To use value-specific rests in an empty measure is redundant to the existing time signature. For that matter, a time signature is redundant if the consideration is merely to play the patterns of notes as written. Musicians are notoriously terrible at counting, but not that bad! Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ My blog: http://maltedmedia.com/bathory/waam-blog.html Composer "buy local" bumpersticker: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/bumpersticker.jpg http://www.cafepress.com/buy/80570307/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
