From: Chris Bonds >The quality of a rest depends entirely on what comes before and after. >Handel has some of the most powerful rests in tonal music. Example: in >the chorus "All We Like Sheep" in the final slow section, the chorus sings >"And the Lord hath laid on him....[rest]...the iniquity of us all." This is >the tension created by putting a rest between a dissonant chord and its >resolution. Technically, this would be a censura since there is no rest here: 2/2 time signature; "Him" is a whole note tied to the following half-note; the second half of this measure picks up with another half-note on "the." Mark K. Ehlert