As Finale users, our hope is that musicians can read and understand
what we want them to play and get it right the first time. With that
in mind, I avoid dotted rests. Not because they aren't allowed, but
because I think they make players "look twice." If I can make my
notation more clear I try to do it.
Larry Eden
Dotted half rests aren't allowed in common time or 4/4 in any
circumstance in my opinion. Rests should never hide the 3rd beat or
the middle of a bar. (So, no half rests in 3/4.)
This seems like an unnecessarily strict rule, and one that is not
followed in an awful lot of printed music.
And I think that an awful lot of printed music looks awful precisely
because of the poor use of rests. A lot of it has to do with the
"fill with rests at end of measure" feature in Finale. And, although
I don't know for sure, I would guess that Sibelius has a similar
feature.
But it all depends on context for me more than it does any set of
"rules" about what's allowed or not in a particular meter.
I'm all for context, but I would like to gently point you to some
"rules" regarding what's incorrect and correct practice for notating
rests.
Gardner Read: page 99
Essential Dictionary of Music Notation (Alfred): page 198
Ross: page 180
Stone: page 134
Powell: page 23
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