On 15 Nov 2007, at 00:57, Graham Percival wrote:
GDP:
http://web.uvic.ca/~gperciva/
Take a look at
NR 1.2.2 Writing rests: Multi measure rests
is "church rests" a real musical term? There's some question over
whether we should use "church rests" or "Kirchenpausen".
Mensural notation preceded modern notation (ca 1600), but indicated
rests are modern. I have dictionary that calls them
Length UK english US English French
1/2 minim rest half rest la demi-pause
1 semibreve rest whole rest la pause
2 breve rest la double pause
It does not say for length 4, but in mensural notation, the note is
called "longa". In fact
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_%28music%29
just calls it "long rest".
For shorter rests, in English, one just uses the note name plus
"pause". For example
Length UK english US English
1/64 hemidemisemiquaver rest sixty-fourth rest
In French, the 1/4 rest is called "le soupir", and the other rests
are given fraction names of that. For example
Length French
1/64 le seizième de soupir
Hindemith suggests using |---| with a number over for rests of nine
measures or longer.
9
|---|
Hans Åberg
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