Jakovljevic: > Working with older music, one often comes up with the fully written out > variety of multi-measure rests. Ex. from an original edition (parts only) > of a Vivaldi concerto: > [image: Two bars of music in 3/8 time with a long 35 measure rest (original > edition, ca. 1725)] ... > Is there any way to automate this kind of thing? Playing around with the > various properties of MultiMeasureRest does not appear to allow for the > varied offset for alternating maxima (8 measure) rests.
Have the multi-measure rest grouping and vertically displacement any indication about how to perform the piece ? In the renaissance and earlier, with mensural notation, there was indications wheter a longer note had the length of two or three of the shorter notes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensural_notation and the indications for the relationship between breve, whole notes, and half notes was explicit, similar to todays time signatures. The relationship between the maxima, longa and breve, was hinted on by using similar patterns as you have in your example, like a time signature for groups of measures. If using that convention, your example would indicate that a maxima is two longas, and a longa is two brevis. So, your example, does it tell you anything about the grand rythm of the piece or are they just kindof: "we have always done that, who knows what it means" ? Regards, /Karl Hammar
