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Re: Markup question


From: David Raleigh Arnold
Subject: Re: Markup question
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 12:48:53 +0000

On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:34 pm, you wrote:
> David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:07 pm, Alexandre Beneteau wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I'm presently writing an orchestral score an have a question about
> >>\markup :
> >>
> >>I have to instruct 1st violins to put the mute several bars before
> >>they have to play.
> >>I've tried to attach a markup to a R2., but it does not work (why
> >> ?),
> >
> > Because centering rests is a bad idea, period, but it is an
> > especially bad idea in a score of any description.  Bad ideas just
> > don't deserve equal time.  Beats should be aligned vertically, and
> > that is the way it is done in this century.  It's not better
> > because it's newer, it's just better.
>
> I agree with you, but in this case R2. is for time 3/4 that is to say
> to whole measure is silence.
> In such a case the rest *must* be centered... period ;-)

Not at all.  I have examples of 19th century guitar music in which the 
rest was centered when there are other parts on the same staff.  Not 
pretty, but it ameliorates vertical spacing problems on the first beat. 
No such trace of justification exists for parts in a score.  DaveA





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