On 12 Mar 2009 at 23:46, Christopher Smith wrote: > Yes and furthermore, the original question was pertaining to > placement of a dotted half rest starting on beat 2 of a pickup > measure. Syncopated rests (held over to a stronger beat) are NEVER > used in modern notation, whereas syncopated notes are commonplace. I > stand by my original answer. Archaic examples from the literature are > not germane to a modern context.
Was anyone arguing for dotted half rest in the context of the original post? Well, perhaps I was, in that I could conceive of a situation where it could make sense (what if the instruments that were playing were all playing a dotted half?). Also, I said quarter plus half would be acceptable but half plus quarter would not, *unless* it could be justfied as conforming to the uniform rhythm played by all the non-resting instruments. Again, in general, I would think you'd want to avoid dotted half, or half/quarter in that context, but I can certainly conceive of situations in which I could justify it. Context, context, context. -- 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
