Ray Horton wrote:
Dotted half rests, in non-compound meters, give the music an amateurish
appearance, just as a conversational tone might tarnish an article for a
scholarly journal. Y'know what I mean?
Whenever I see a dotted half rest in non-compound meter, I assume a
computer engraver with auto-fill rests that he/she doesn't know how to
control. If that is the impression yu want to give, then, by all means,
use them!
But that just shows that the person has manipulated the
software because the default behavior for both Finale and
Sibelius when their auto-fill with rests option is turned on
is to not use dotted rests.
I'm curious and not trying to pick a fight -- why do they
look amateurish? And why do they look amateurish when
dotted half-notes do not? Is it mainly because of
tradition? I'm really wondering about why we accept some
things from notes which we don't accept from rests, such as
quarter-half-quarter being perfectly acceptable when they're
written as notes but not acceptable when written as rests.
Why not?
--
David H. Bailey
dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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