"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My guess is that it's a holdover from the days when multimeasure rests actually represented the number of rests involved. That meant in 4/4 two measures of rest would be represented by a double whole rest (i.e., a block filling an entire space rather than just half of it), four by two-lines filled in, etc. Since we've abandoned that for the modern multimeasure rest symbol with a number over it, I don't see why the standard couldn't be just to use a whole rest.
Your "we" doesn't include me. I use the old mixture for up to 12 measures, and am always pleased to see it in parts from which I play. They are especially helpful in French music (Franck and Saint=Saens symphonies in recent memory) in editions that make 3 and 5 almost indistinguishable.
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