On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:03:23PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >There are to supported syntaxes: > >[A] K:<tonic><mode> <accidentals> > >[B] K:<tonic> <accidentals> > > This is actually a bit counterintuitive, since > > K:D > > means D major (= 2 sharps) > > while > > K:D ^f > > means D mix (= 1 sharp) > > Not that there are many tunes about currently which use global accidentals, > but the second interpretation of the symbol D breaks the old standard.
Yes. The least necessary change would be to require explicit Dmaj, which would label a bare D as tonic. But all of this breaks with what's Already Out There. > If the symbol D is to be interpreted in a new way (i.e. as tonic, rather > than as a D major key signature) I'd rather it was explicitly labelled as > such, i.e. > > K: tonic=D ^f > > or some such. As with Bryan's suggestion, I'd prefer to keep the simplicity of searching for K:<tonic> to find all tunes that sit on <tonic>. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
