At 3/13/2009 06:21 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: >On 13 Mar 2009 at 16:18, Ray Horton wrote: > >> Dotted half rests, in non-compound meters, give the music an amateurish >> appearance, just as a conversational tone might tarnish an article for a >> scholarly journal. Y'know what I mean? >> >> Whenever I see a dotted half rest in non-compound meter, I assume a >> computer engraver with auto-fill rests that he/she doesn't know how to >> control. If that is the impression yu want to give, then, by all means, >> use them! > >This is *your* reaction, not one that is universally shared.
As a player, if there are no notes in a particular measure, I would prefer to see just one rest taking up the whole measure.
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