RE: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-03 Thread Wiz-of-Oz
The only exception is when you want to put fermata above a half rest in 3/4 (or respectively above a dotted half rest in 4/4), IF other instruments have similar rhythmic content at the same time. e.g. staff 1: [4][2r+fermata] staff 2: [4][2+fermata] staff 3: [4][2+fermata] with best regards, A

RE: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-02 Thread John Bell
At 08:04 pm +0200 02.05.2002, Wiz-of-Oz wrote: >P.S. BTW you're not allowed to use dotted half rest in 4/4 and 3/4, >nor a half rest in 3/4 (with only one exception). What's the exception? John ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.

RE: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-02 Thread Wiz-of-Oz
Syncopation is a special musical device for marking a stress of otherwise unaccented beat, and as it is not possible to put an accent on a rest, you cannot notate rests syncopated. So as long as in 4/4: [4][2][4] is right for syncopated rhythm, [4][2r][4] just does not make any sense (however ma

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-02 Thread Ken Durling
On Thu, 2 May 2002 20:04:26 +0200, you wrote: I did an informal survey of about a dozen scores in my library this morning - Bartok, Stravinsky, Berio, Ligeti, Britten - the vast majority do not use dotted rests on syncopations. The only one I found that did was Stravinsky, in the 4th Tableau of

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 7:26 AM -0700 5/02/02, Robert Patterson wrote: >Christopher BJ Smith wrote >> >> Yet you never see 1/4 note, 1/2 rest, 1/4 note. >> > >I went back last night and read the relevant passages in Read and >Stone. (FWIW: >Stone is the closest thing I know of to a manual of internationally accepted

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 8:43 AM + 5/02/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > >>At 10:08 PM + 5/01/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >> >>>And what international convention adopted this "rule?" Which rule >>>number is it, anyway, and what book can we llok it up in? >>> >>>If we are not ever to sy

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 7:46 AM -0500 5/02/02, Don Hart wrote: >on 5/2/02 6:59 AM, Christopher BJ Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: > >>> If we are not ever to syncopate rests, then I gather that the following: >>> 16th-note/8th-rest/16th-note is never to be written? What's up with >>> that, it's written all the

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Patterson
Christopher BJ Smith wrote > > Yet you never see 1/4 note, 1/2 rest, 1/4 note. > I went back last night and read the relevant passages in Read and Stone. (FWIW: Stone is the closest thing I know of to a manual of internationally accepted rules. It is the result of an international convention in

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-02 Thread Don Hart
on 5/2/02 6:59 AM, Christopher BJ Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If we are not ever to syncopate rests, then I gather that the following: >> 16th-note/8th-rest/16th-note is never to be written? What's up with >> that, it's written all the time. >> I very rarely see that syncopation written

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-02 Thread David H. Bailey
Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > At 10:08 PM + 5/01/02, David H. Bailey wrote: > >> And what international convention adopted this "rule?" Which rule >> number is it, anyway, and what book can we llok it up in? >> >> If we are not ever to syncopate rests, then I gather that the following: >

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 10:08 PM + 5/01/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >And what international convention adopted this "rule?" Which rule >number is it, anyway, and what book can we llok it up in? > >If we are not ever to syncopate rests, then I gather that the following: >16th-note/8th-rest/16th-note is never to be

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread David H. Bailey
And what international convention adopted this "rule?" Which rule number is it, anyway, and what book can we llok it up in? If we are not ever to syncopate rests, then I gather that the following: 16th-note/8th-rest/16th-note is never to be written? What's up with that, it's written all the t

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread Don Hart
on 5/1/02 5:49 PM, Wiz-of-Oz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The rule says: do not ever syncopate rests! > > so > [8.r][16] is correct > [16][8.r] is wrong, > it should be > [16][16r][8r] > > and in many cases > [8r][16r][16] makes things easier to read in orchestral context. > > regards, > Abe

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 10:05 AM -0500 5/01/02, Doug Auwarter wrote: >on 5/1/02 5:11 AM, Christopher BJ Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: > >> The way you are doing it is officially (according to what I learned) >> correct, as your second example uses syncopated rests, which is a >> no-no. >> >> For manuscript, I

RE: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread Wiz-of-Oz
The rule says: do not ever syncopate rests! so [8.r][16] is correct [16][8.r] is wrong, it should be [16][16r][8r] and in many cases [8r][16r][16] makes things easier to read in orchestral context. regards, Abel Korzeniowski the Polish sixth lover > On 01.05.2002 7:49 Uhr, Ken Durling wrote

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread David H. Bailey
I didn't see anything specifically discussing this situation in Stone's Music Notation in th e20th Century, but on page 112, in the example at the bottom, he DOES use a dotted-8th-rest following a 16th-note to complete beat 3 of the measure. In the Norton Manual of Music Notation by George Heu

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread Don Hart
on 5/1/02 8:48 AM, Robert Patterson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Concerning dotted 16ths, I believe one of the references is fairly clear about > it. I know David Bailey said Gardner Read was silent, but I thought I > remembered > something in there about it nevertheless. If not there then in Ku

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread Doug Auwarter
on 5/1/02 5:11 AM, Christopher BJ Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The way you are doing it is officially (according to what I learned) > correct, as your second example uses syncopated rests, which is a > no-no. > > For manuscript, I have told my students to avoid dotted rests > altogether,

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread Robert Patterson
Concerning dotted 16ths, I believe one of the references is fairly clear about it. I know David Bailey said Gardner Read was silent, but I thought I remembered something in there about it nevertheless. If not there then in Kurt Stone. (Unfortunately those reference books are not here at this compu

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 01.05.2002 7:49 Uhr, Ken Durling wrote > Hi all - > > I've been following the convention (?) of using a dotted eighth rest > when a sixteenth falls on the last sixteenth of the beat and the rest > precedes it; and when the sixteenth note is on the first of the beat, > followed by rests, I'

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 10:49 PM -0700 4/30/02, Ken Durling wrote: >Hi all - > >I've been following the convention (?) of using a dotted eighth rest >when a sixteenth falls on the last sixteenth of the beat and the rest >precedes it; and when the sixteenth note is on the first of the beat, >followed by rests, I've b

Re: [Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-05-01 Thread David H. Bailey
Gardner Read doesn't mention this situation in his book Music Notation. Ted Ross doesn't show your specific example, either. In my opinion the dotted rest should be used in both cases, since it completes the beat clearly. If it is okay to use it where the rest comes first, then it is okay t

[Finale] dotted eighth rests

2002-04-30 Thread Ken Durling
Hi all - I've been following the convention (?) of using a dotted eighth rest when a sixteenth falls on the last sixteenth of the beat and the rest precedes it; and when the sixteenth note is on the first of the beat, followed by rests, I've been using separate 1/16th and 1/8th rests. Someo