David W. Fenton wrote:
On 12 Mar 2009 at 7:21, Christopher Smith wrote:
you ignore the opinions of every recognised expert in the
field who has published a book on the subject. That HAS to count for
something?
For me, it counts for exactly ZILCH.
I've always wondered whether these "experts" (whose opinions
I pay attention to when they make sense to me) were experts
who wrote books on notation or did they write books on
notation and by dint of that fact alone have been accepted
as experts.
Surely we could put together an equal and opposing number of
position papers on the use of dotted rests being A) clear to
the performer; B) as easy to read with a little practice as
any other facet of notation is for those who aren't
comfortable with them; C) more helpful in terms of
indicating the phrasing than using undotted rests to equal
the same rhythmic space.
I'm with the "if it's clear and easy to read it's fine"
school of notation, which allows dotted rests and eschews
double-dotted notes. :-)
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David H. Bailey
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