Yes - a whole rest.
RBH
Phil Daley wrote:
At 3/13/2009 06:21 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
>On 13 Mar 2009 at 16:18, 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!
>
>This is *your* reaction, not one that is universally shared.
As a player, if there are no notes in a particular measure, I would
prefer to see just one rest taking up the whole measure.
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