Re: Alternative Quarter Rest

[Dan Eble]

On Nov 30, 2014, at 01:53 , Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> IMSLP is your friend; there you should also get scans with better
> resolution.  Here the vocal score of `Don Pasquale' (Ricordi, 1870),
> with a slightly different design of the quarter rest, having a
> transition form to the modern shape:
> 
>  http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/141736

Users,

I’m looking for a good name for a rest style that is like the default except 
for using a quarter rest shaped like a mirrored Z.  I’ve seen examples in 
19th-C. Italian opera and 20th-C. American hymnals, so names based on time, 
place, publisher, or genre do not fit very well.  Although, I also see the 
“classical” quarter rest in a late 19th-C. American hymnal, so maybe I 
shouldn’t worry about universality so much.  My best idea is “z” based on its 
appearance, but it seems strange to name a whole style after just one rest.
— 
Dan