On 8 Feb 2004 at 22:04, d. collins wrote: > I have a movement in 6/2 (=3/2 x 2, with the dotted half note as basic > unit). What are the correct rests for: a) a whole measure b) a half > measure c) a measure with only a half note upbeat at the end > > I was tempted to use a centered whole note rest for a), and then 3 > half note rests for b), and 5 half note rests for c). > > But 5 rests aren't exactly easy to read. Does anyone have any better > suggestion?
Ack, what a mess. Is renotating the whole thing in 6/4 not an option? I don't know of any tradition in which 6/2 is a meter that performers are going to find easy to handle. As a matter of fact, I just struggled with this very issue, having a section of a piece in 6/4 that really belonged in 6/2. Instead, I renotated it in 3/2. This blew away certain cases where in the 6/4 version there was a switch back and forth between 6/4 and 3/2 (the "I wanna be in a America" affect, though at a much slower tempo), but it just turned out to be much more readable (some double dotting, for instance), despite the ties across barlines where the 6/2 version would switch to 3/1. I never contemplated 6/2 as a possibility, actually, since I've never ever seen it in any music, ever. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
