At 12:28 PM -0700 3/11/09, Ryan Beard wrote:
Hi List,
In Common time, I have a pick-up measure of 3 quarter notes. For the
instruments who don't play, would you prefer to see:
3 quarter rests
1 quarter rest and 1 half rest
Is there a "correct" answer for this case or is it open to
interpretation? This music will be read by beginners, in case that
affects your opinion.
As a player I would ALWAYS prefer to see exactly the value of the
pickup notes represented by rests. Anything else REQUIRES a
statement in rehearsal that "the pickup starts on beat 2," and that
statement has to be repeated in rehearsal after rehearsal!!!
As a conductor, I simply don't care because I can see what's
happening in the score.
What I do NOT like is the old fashioned way of having to make sure
that a pickup partial-bar is subtracted from the bar at the end of a
section, but that's still sometimes used.
John
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John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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(mailto:john.how...@vt.edu)
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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of jazz musicians.
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