Hi, Jacki -- I'm sure you'll get differing answers, but in that circumstance I nearly always use four dotted quarters and my community orchestra has had no difficulty whatsoever....in fact, in last night's rehearsal, we encountered two similar such circumstances: in a 6/8 passage in my own arrangement of 'O Holy Night' amongst various carols, I did present a four-dotted-quarters bar which was sight-read accurately. We also last night rehearsed the Williams/Brubaker "Harry Potter Symphonic Suite" which presents a single syncopated 6/8 bar containing three quarters - it follows regularly-pulsed 6/8 bars and created no angst. I feel dotted tied eighths would present unnecessary reading confusion, and unless there is some unusual reason for doing so: don't!
Best, Les Les Marsden Founding Music Director and Conductor, The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!! http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.html http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lesbio.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Jacki Barineau To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:35 PM Subject: [Finale] Question About Proper Notation Hi, Everyone... I'm notating a song in 6/8 time and in one spot it has syncopated rhythm, and I'm not sure which way is the proper way to notate it! There are 4 notes in the measure, each getting 1.5 counts - would this be portrayed with 4 dotted-eighth notes? Or would you do dotted- eighth, 16th-tied-to-8th, dotted-eighth, 16th-tied-to-8th? Thanks! Jacki_______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
