Re: caesura

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:38 pm, Paul Scott wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
> >On Mon, 26 May 2003 12:29:36 +0200
> >
> >Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>address@hidden writes:
> >>>Here's a scan of a caesura captured in the wild.
> >>>
> >>>  http://daniel.ashtonfam.org/caesura.gif

Measure 25 shows why the centering of measure rests is such a bad
idea, as I said some years ago.  When you have three parts on one
staff instead of two it is really really nasty.  It is not the
modern standard, and Dave Mendenhall, who used to do typesetting
for Hal Leonard, would never have done it that way.  HL used to publish 
the Ross book IIRC, and they published an abridged version later.  I
wish I could talk more people out of centering rests.  I thought
they were really cool until I met some real typesetters, who
explained the error of my ways, using the Ross book to do it.

This example is not entirely typeset.  There may be some transfer
symbols used, but the tenuto marks and the whole rests and probably
the stems are drawn in by hand.  Sorry, it's at least partially 
photoengraving.  It's not necessarily made in the USA either.
Could be Canadian, Korean, Mexican, Irish, Italian.....

Please forbear to argue this.  If you want to center rests,
center them.  That'll show Ross.  DaveA

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