Re: Style for Editorial Rests

Colin Campbell wrote:

> For curiosity, does your director *discourage* stagger breathing? That
> would seem to maintain the flow of music as the composer (presumably)
> intended, while recognising the basses don't breathe through their ears.
>
My choir certainly does sing pieces in which we do a significant amount of
stagger breathing. But I guess we also care a lot about having sibilants
land at the exact same time. 🙂

Kieren MacMillan wrote:

> I would DEFINITELY go with the bracketed notation:
>
> %%%  SNIPPET BEGINS
>

Here’s how the Lassus example looks with bracketed “early release” rests:

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(As I noted above, at the beginning of measure 11, there is an “original”
rest in the Tenor [T1] part, so that one doesn’t get brackets.)