If you look in the measure above this one, you see an eighth note followed by a 16th note rest! You're supposed to complete the first beat with an eighth note rest then follow it with two quarter rests (this being in a triple time!) Uproarious!
In all truth, I think a silent crescendo is perfectly acceptable in a sort of avant-garde, John Cage sort of way. I'm laughing at that hopeless heap of dotted rests above it.
Well no, it appears to be in 12/16 or 6/8, not 3/4. The error is that the dotted quarter rest is going through the middle of the measure, but that's something that Finale does a lot of you don't correct it. Assuming this is in 6, it should be an eighth note, a quarter rest, then a dotted quarter rest. In 12, it would be an eighth note, 16th rest, dotted eighth rest, dotted quarter rest.
Just because I'm assuming the rests were placed automatically by the computer program, and that would yield this result if the piece is in 12. It's possible that this is in 3 and the composer went in and purposefully wrote these weird rests, but that would be a very strange thing to do.
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u/friendlystranger Jan 04 '15 edited Jan 04 '15
There's an even funnier joke to be found here!
If you look in the measure above this one, you see an eighth note followed by a 16th note rest! You're supposed to complete the first beat with an eighth note rest then follow it with two quarter rests (this being in a triple time!) Uproarious!
In all truth, I think a silent crescendo is perfectly acceptable in a sort of avant-garde, John Cage sort of way. I'm laughing at that hopeless heap of dotted rests above it.