I frequently run into this situation in guitar music. I have never found a rule for the stem direction of the middle stems and so always point the stems to best minimize confusion caused by wrongly reading the notes of two voices with stems in the same direction as one voice (and not adding up correctly, of course). I think it is often better if the top line is the only one with up stems, but there are exceptions. Richard's idea of changing the middle voice half notes to two tied quarters is a practical solution that completely avoids ambiguity.
And, yes, the alignment of the rests in your example (both horizontally and vertically) does not look right to me. No reason for the first in each measure not to be higher. Richard Yates > Say you have three voices on one staff, as in the first bars > (left hand), of the Goldbergs (see link to scan below). > Assuming the upper voice has all its stems upwards, the lower > voice all stems downwards, what is the rule for the middle part? > > www.collins.lautre.net/files/goldberg.jpg > > (By the way, shouldn't the rests in these bars be > horizontally aligned?) > > Thanks, > > Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
