I actually find the stacked up rests can be useful on occasions, especially in older music. I've had two examples of this this week when the number indicating the number of rests was unclear - I very quickly looked at the stacked rests to work out that the unclear number was an 8, not a 6, and that it was a 2 not a 7. This was sight-reading some Baroque music from old parts.
I agree that in modern printed copies were numbers are clear, they aren't really necessary. Cheers, Lawrence On 14 May 2010 16:57, John Howell <john.how...@vt.edu> wrote: > At 11:24 AM +0200 5/14/10, dc wrote: > >> >> And what's the kosher whole measure rest in 6/8 and 16/8? >> > > As far as I know a regular whole rest is ALWAYS the default for a full > measure rest no matter what the meter. > > The only exception I can think of is the old fashioned and thankfully > obsolete stacking up of rests of various shapes in multi-rests, which > originated in 13th century Franconian notation (the first notation to give > metric value to breath marks), and hung on MUCH too long! Those of us > involved in early music have to be able to read them. The rest of us should > not. > > John > -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
