Raymond Horton wrote:
My, we've really explored many sides of the 6/4 meter issue since I
posted my question late last night!
I think we've settled that: in general, 6/4 should divide in the middle,
3/2 should divide in threes, just as 6/8 and 3/4 do. There are
exceptions, but the general rule should hold. The arguments seem to be
just how much exception one allows. Fair enough.
My problem is, I've got the editor from my publisher waiting on me to
proof his engraving of an arrangement of mine, and I need to tell him,
like tonight or tomorrow, whether or not to change some of our mutually
inconsistent rests. And, so far, my question hasn't been answered with
any degree of consensus by the experts on this fine list during this
gentle mayhem that has ensued from the original question.
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The work in question is most definitely in two groups of 3 beats each
(although it often hemiolas into 3/2 temporarily).
I just wasn't certain, in 6/4, whether five beats rest should generally
be a dotted half plus two quarters or a dotted half plus a half. The
latter is easy to read, but I suspect that Johannes is indeed on target
with his asstertion that the former is most correct?
Also, for another example: two beats rest, followed by a quarter note,
quarter note, half note. Should the rest(s) be two quarter rests, or
will a half suffice?
My principal composition teacher, the late Nelson Keyes, was always
quite irked when he would see a half rest in 3/4 in a published work,
but it is a rule that is often broken. I don't know if this is the same
type of situation.
Please don't let me down this time, folks!
Raymond Horton
While it might not gain me fans among some, I would just say to go with
the beat. It's MUCH easier to read. If you have the measure divided in
half by the pulse of the piece, I'd use two dotted half-rests, and
subdivisions of those. If divided in thirds, three hald rests, and so on.
Just my 2 cents.
cd
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