Re: Again: Whole Bar Rests and Unmetered Music

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Samstag, 6. Dezember 2008 14:02:04 schrieb Dmytro O. Redchuk:
>   Please, can anybody answer me:
>   1. Shouldn't whole bar rest be semibreve (whole) rest for any actual
> time except 4/2?

Gardner Read says about whole-measure rests (p.98):
"Although the whole rest literally signifies only the value of a hole note, it 
now commonly serves as the symbol for any completely silent measure, 
regardless of the meter or time-signature. Formerly, it served for all measure 
values except 4/2, this rest being indicated by a sign borrowed from the breve 
symbol of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century music. But today the whole rest 
stands for any empty measure -- for all meters from a theoretical 8/2 to a 
3/16. For a 2/16 (1/8) or smaller silent bar, an actual eighth (or smaller) 
rest would be used."

>   2. How can i tell lilypond to "draw" whole rest instead of breve
> (double)?

You can't, since it's hardcoded to use a breve rest for ALL measure lengths 
>=2 (i.e. >= 4/2)...
- From multi-measure-rest-engraver.cc (lines 218-221):

      SCM sml = get_property ("measureLength");
      Rational ml = (unsmob_moment (sml)) ? unsmob_moment (sml)->main_part_ :
                               Rational (1);
      if (ml >= Rational (2))
        last_rest_->set_property ("use-breve-rest", SCM_BOOL_T);

So, apparently, this "violates" the convention Read describes in two ways:
- -) breve should only be used for ml == Rational(2) (if at all!)
- -) For ml < Rational (3, 16) a rest of appropriate duration should be used 
instead of the semibreve

Cheers,
Reinhold
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