Rests in compound time

"For part of a bar, use rests in a way that marks out beat divisions. That means, in compound time, using combinations of dotted crotchet and dotted minim rests. In 9/8, AFAIK, two dotted crotchets is preferred to a dotted minim rest for any two silent beats."

1. How do you write rests in a compound time?
2. How do you group rests in 6/8 time?
3. What are rests in music theory?

How do you write rests in a compound time?

As you learned in Section 3.8, when dealing with such compound time signatures as 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8, the beat is a dotted crotchet, so each beat's rest can be written either as a dotted crotchet rest or as a crotchet rest followed by a quaver rest, as in Example 37.

How do you group rests in 6/8 time?

Here are some examples: 6/8 = two dotted quarter note beats per bar. The first rest we write needs to make up a complete dotted quarter beat when added to the C quarter note, so we write an eighth rest. Now we have a complete first beat, made up of the quarter (note) plus an eighth (rest).

What are rests in music theory?

In music theory, a rest refers to an interval of time that a player is not sounding a note on their instrument. Music rests abound throughout all styles of music, contributing to memorable melodies and rhythms.