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 time. I

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 syncopate rests, then

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]

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

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 been

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've

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

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 Kurt

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

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 have told