On 12 Mar 2009 at 6:20, Lawrence David Eden wrote: > 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.
The point I've been trying to make is that you can't make a hard-and- fast rule about this -- there can be contexts in which the dotted rest will be clearer (or no less clear) than the alternative. It all depends on CONTEXT. Certainly in a meter like 6/4 I'd much rather have dotted half rests than muck around with half/quarter. Again, it all depends on context (and it also depends on your musicians -- early music specialists are not going to be bothered by dotted rests, for instance). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
