On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:03:03AM +0000, John Chambers wrote: > Richard Robinson writes: > | What about the cases where notes in different octaves > | have different accidentals ? I don't see why "notes" in the key > | signature couldn't take the full normal ABC value, with uppercase > | and lowercase and , and ' as necessary, so that somebody could > | express a key signature with different accidentals for a note in each > | octave right up and down the scale. Why do we have to forbid everything > | we can't think of a use for ? Other people have already expressed a wish > | for this, John has already said so for anybody that missed it. > > That's basically what I implemented. Except that I haven't > gotten around to debugging leger lines in key signatures. > ;-) I wonder if there are actually any musical styles where > this would be useful? I don't know of any, but that's not > much evidence.
Likewise. We're missing Jack's input, aren't we ? ;) But actually, given that there have been expressions of a need for /interest in 2-octave scales ... you wouldn't have to go very far on those lines (hah ! sorry) before leger-lines started showing up. You've only got one B & C without them, for instance. > ... > | Is "K:D exp _b _e ^f" different from "K:D _b _e ^f" ? > | Where does this come from, has it been mentioned before ? > > That "exp" is a new one with me. But we did have a > discussion some time back in which several people expressed > the desire for a "no mode" symbol. The discussion then > seems to have settled on '*' as the symbol, so you'd say > K:D*_B_e^f for example. I didn't see any real need for > this, but I actually spent a couple of minutes implementing > it. I haven't used it myself, because it's not logically > necessary. But it is easy enough to implement. > > I think that Irwin just made up the "exp". It's probably as > easy as "*". Neither is really necessary. But then, key > signatures aren't really necessary, are they? So, on the assumption that the mode has to be explicitly stated if there are following accidentals, the 2 are the same ? -- 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
