On 13 Mar 2009, at 4:58 PM, dhbailey wrote:
I'm curious and not trying to pick a fight -- why do they look amateurish?
Because most publishers don't use dotted rests (except dotted eighth rests and smaller) in non-compound meters.
And why do they look amateurish when dotted half-notes do not?
Because all publishers use dotted half-notes.
Is it mainly because of tradition?
Yes.
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?
I speculated about that in my last message. Again, I think it's about the psychology of note placement. In sight-reading situations, placing the attack in the right spot is (at least) 90% of the battle. So rests that outline the beat clearly help the sight-reader to visually and psychologically "plant" their attack.
At least, that's my best guess. Cheers, - Darcy ----- djar...@mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/djargon Brooklyn, NY _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
