Christopher BJ Smith wrote > > Yet you never see 1/4 note, 1/2 rest, 1/4 note. >
I went back last night and read the relevant passages in Read and Stone. (FWIW: Stone is the closest thing I know of to a manual of internationally accepted rules. It is the result of an international convention in the 1970s.) They require careful reading, but the key point is that the rule against syncopated rests applies to *beats*. Specifically, Read states that rests should not span a beat, and gives right and wrong examples. (4n, 8r, 4r is one of the wrong examples.) Presumably, if the beat were in 8th notes, then 16th, dotted-8r would be wrong. But if the beat is in quarter (or larger) notes, then Read expresses no preference. Indeed, in the chapter on accents, one of his examples shows 16th notes followed by dotted 8th rests in a 4/4 context. Another example shows 32nd notes followed by 32r-16r, which is the opposite choice. Ross apparently places a similar emphasis on rests not spanning a beat. See p. 179, "...in simple time the half and quater rest are never dotted." Ross is silent about smaller-valued dotted rests, and his examples do not illustrate any. The bottom line is that the most accepted authorities I know of express no preference about dotted eighth and smaller dotted rests, when the beat is simple time in quarter (or larger) note values. Any of 16n-8.r, 8.r-16n, 16n-16r-8r, 8r-16r-16n is equally acceptable. -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
