At 7:43 PM +1030 1/14/11, Andrew Moschou wrote:
On 14 January 2011 08:54, Darcy James Argue <djar...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Centered whole rests are fine (what could be less ambiguous?) for empty
measures in any meter.
Not in 4/2.
Yes, I've been told that. My feeling is that only an idiot would
fail to read a single whole rest in a measure as a full measure rest,
but there seems to be some kind of "rule" that large-scale meters
require more. Of course there used to be a "rule" (originating in
the 13th century with Franco of Cologne, actually) that long rests
had to be indicated by stacks of repeated and difficult-to-read
individual rests. That persisted into the 19th century, but thank
goodness we've grown out of it for the most part, thanks to
multi-measure rests.
John
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