Richard Robinson writes: | On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:32:51PM +0000, John Chambers wrote: | > | > K:_B has no tonic, but a signature, which is _B. Maybe it's F or Dm. | | This last has the potential to be misunderstood, I think. The key | signature would be | K:Bb ? | | Easy to mis-type, or misunderstand.
Don't look now, but we already have that problem. I've seen a fair number of abc tunes with key signatures like K:_B or K:^Fm, where the person was obviously confused on this issue. It's too bad that abc copied the traditional confused notation. I suppose the people who do this will eventually figure out why abc programs produce the wrong key signature with their tunes. This confusion is probably not helped by an extension that makes K:Bb and K:_B both legal but with different meanings. But since it's exactly the same sort of confusion that is in conventional music notation, the same sort of learning experience applies to both. Now if there were only a way to make conventional music notation more rational ... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
