Re: horizontal shifting of rests

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Monday 27 October 2008 08:36, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> In a 3 voice piece, I need a rest in the middle voice, but there's not 
> enough space. I'm trying to shift the rest to the right,

The rest should be to the left, before a stem.  Otherwise, it looks like 
the rest should follow the note which precedes it. This is an obscure 
rule, so you can find erroneous examples easily. I have seen
both correct and incorrect examples in old music of Sor. In both cases
there were many measures repeated with the same usage.

The newer and shorter z or s rest was invented before 1808 to make this 
problem somewhat less likely.  Regards, daveA

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