On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:20:26PM +0000, John Chambers wrote: > Bernard Hill writes: > | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Robinson > | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > | > > | >Or K:E=f=c^G=d ? Longer, but maybe clearer. > | > | K:C ^g looks fine to me. > > Well, it looks fine, but it has the wrong tonic. This > doesn't matter on paper. But there are those of us who take > advantage of the computer's ability to find stuff for us. > This would cause it to match a search for tunes in C, which > is not what you want if the tonic is E. > > This is part of the argument for making the tonic optional. > K:C^g is misleading and causes bad matches. K:^g would be > better, because it wouldn't give a mismatch. It wouldn't > match a search for any tonic, of course, which is one of > the reasons you'd prefer to have the tonic present. But at > least it wouldn't match the wrong tonic. > > Of course, such searches are always prone to failure > because people just give the wrong key. It's common to see > K:G for tunes in E minor or A dorian. There's not a lot we > can do about this except try to educate people.
If I had them locally (the tunes, not the people) it might be worth considering a single-character key sig as a flag for "this might need changing" :-) -- 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
