>> What makes them hard to use is that you'd only do >> this if you had (a) figured out what the correct mode >> of the tune was, having gone right through it to see >> what pitches occurred, and (b) decided not to write >> it that way. > Jack, that's not true. There are a lot of tunes that > cannot be notated with standard key signatures, e.g. > because they are build on a scale with flattened and > sharpened notes at the same time. > Consider the D-Ahavoh Rabboh mode, common in Klezmer. [...]
You're missing the point. John was talking about the difference between writing such scales as an explicit key signature at the start (as is usually done these days for Turkish music) and taking some major or minor key signature as the base and then writing an accidental beside every note that deviates from it. We seem to be agreed that the latter is not generally a good idea; I was pointing out occasions when it has in fact been done in print. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
