Re: GDP: church rests

[Hans Aberg]

On 15 Nov 2007, at 17:19, Francisco Vila wrote:


> > > > Hindemith suggests using |---| with a number over for rests of
> > > > nine measures or longer.
> > > >     9
> > > >   |---|
> > > The default rule in LilyPond is to do this for 11 measures or
> > > longer, see
> > > section "Multi measure rests" in the manual for information on  
> > > how to
> > > change this value.
>
> For the term "church rests", Finale for example simply says "use
> symbols for multimeasure rests up to nine measures"

Hindemith's book has the diagram above, so it is clear that he would  
use it for rests of length 9 measures.

  Hans Åberg