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Rests stay within the staff wherever possible. They do not move above or below the staff when
the notes around them are very high or very low.
However, on staves with multiple voices, rests are placed higher on the staff, or above the staff,
for up-stem voices and lower on the staff, or below the staff, for down-stem voices.
Example rest positions in a multiple-voice context
Rests in multiple voices must not overlap. You can consolidate rests so that only one is shown
when multiple voices have a rest of the same duration at the same rhythmic position.
The precise vertical positioning of rests is limited, as their detailed shapes require specic
positions relative to staff lines and staff spaces.
RELATED LINKS
Voices on page 997
Inputting notes into multiple voices on page 174
Creating cross-staff beams on page 583
Implicit vs. explicit rests
Implicit rests are automatically shown between the notes you input, and their duration
automatically follows the time signature and their position in the bar. Explicit rests are rests that
are explicitly entered during note input by forcing their duration, or rests that were imported
from a MusicXML
le.
Dorico Elements notates implicit rests according to the current time signature, for example,
different implicit rests are shown in 6/8 compared to 4/4. This also applies if you later change the
time signature for existing notes and rests.
Therefore, it is not necessary to input rests in Dorico Elements, as implicit rests are automatically
shown around the notes that you input. You can turn implicit rests into explicit rests by forcing
their duration to be
xed.
A quarter note input at the fourth eighth note of
the bar in a 6/8 time signature has a dotted quarter
implicit rest at the start of the bar.
A quarter note input at the fourth eighth note of the
bar in a 4/4 time signature has two implicit rests, a
quarter and an eighth, at the start of the bar.
Explicit rests cannot be suppressed when using the Starts voice and Ends voice properties to
hide rests before the
rst note in voices and after the last note in voices.
You can show rest colors to see which rests are implicit and which are explicit in your project.
Rests
Implicit vs. explicit rests
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Dorico Elements 3.5.12