Aloha K.
Here's the one I've been working on. Maybe it's just wrong. I agree
with your logic and defer to you as I know little about these
conventions at this point.
Also, I said on r4 but it's actually on r8.
This is from Brothers In Arms published by Musicnotes under license from
Universal Music Publishing Group.
I have an authorized copy and this is an excerpt from that.
J.
On 1/2/24 14:46, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hi John,
But, ... I don't really see why it should. There are many songs for which the
vocal precedes the melody.
I don’t know of a single one. A rest is literally musical silence — how can it
have a “vocal” on it? Now, of course, you could have non-sung syllables… but
that is not equivalent to a REST.
I’d be happy to be proven wrong, though. Please feel free to upload a scan of a
score where a voice is instructed to sing on a rest.
Perhaps there is some other way to accomplish this that I'm unaware of. I'm
pretty much a novice at writing. However, I am transcribing a published score
into LP as an exercise but also to do my own arrangement.
Rests are valid musical expressions (AFAIK) so why shouldn't it be possible to
attach a syllable to a rest?
Because a rest is silence — the absence of pitch.
There is sprechstimme, dialogue spoken over rests, front-phrasing of a melody,
and so forth… but you can’t sing “on” a rest.
Cheers,
Kieren.
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