>> Dotted half rests aren't allowed in common time or 4/4 in any >> circumstance in my opinion. Rests should never hide the 3rd beat or >> the middle of a bar. (So, no half rests in 3/4.)
> This seems like an unnecessarily strict rule, and one that is not > followed in an awful lot of printed music. And I think that an awful lot of printed music looks awful precisely because of the poor use of rests. A lot of it has to do with the "fill with rests at end of measure" feature in Finale. And, although I don't know for sure, I would guess that Sibelius has a similar feature. > But it all depends on context for me more than it does any set of > "rules" about what's allowed or not in a particular meter. I'm all for context, but I would like to gently point you to some "rules" regarding what's incorrect and correct practice for notating rests. Gardner Read: page 99 Essential Dictionary of Music Notation (Alfred): page 198 Ross: page 180 Stone: page 134 Powell: page 23 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
