Some expert feedback on the notation of rests in compound meter?
I’m writing a polymetric pice in which all parts have the half note / minim in common, with piano and bassoon in simple time (4/2 and 3/2, respectively) and the bass in compound time (6/4).
The pick-up bar is to contain the equivalent of three half-note rests.
Dorico seemed to place the piano’s rests correctly (they represent one half of beat three followed by all of beat four).
However, for the bass’ compound meter (6/4), I would have expected the use of a dotted whole rest, to represent all of that part’s beat two, rather than breaking that beat up into two parts, via a whole + half rests:
I tried to affirm the bass’ compound meter by re-entering it (via the meter popover) as [3+3]/h – and [3+3]/h,3, for the popover – but that made no difference.
I also checked that I had selected the desired rest format for compound meter in Notation Options:
What am I doing wrong?
In the end, the only thing that gave me a dotted whole rest was to manually enter a dotted whole rest, using the ‘force duration’ tool:
. . . but is that dot really supposed to be in the space above the rest?
Thanks, in advance, for any help you care to share!