On 6 Nov 2007 at 14:43, Robert Patterson wrote: > What I have done in my own work is to make my rules for 6/8 consistent > with the standard rules for 9/8 and 12/8 (as given in Ross p. 179). > But I do make an exception in the case I showed, where the measure > starts with a quarter and ends with an 8th.
I really don't understand why you'd do that. It's certainly not historically the case that it would have been done that way -- the sources I work with use the largest value possible for the rest within each beat. That is, a dotted quarter rest will be used if it starts on the beat, but nowhere else, a quarter rest will be used if it's on the first or second 8th of the beat, but never on the 3rd. To me, the standard quarter/eighth pattern is so ingrained for 6/8 that it's confusing to see anything else (I also don't believe there's such a thing as a meter in 6, but we've had that argument before). So, if I saw a quarter note followed by 2 8th rests and an 8th note, I'd be confused by it. to me, the quarter rest makes much more sense. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
