In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I. Oppenheim
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>> What about the cases where notes in different octaves
>> have different accidentals ?
>
>I personally think that the explicit key signature
>scheme as it is currently defined in the standard is
>already quite complex.
>
>Making distinction between the octave of the
>accidentals would be a bridge to far.
>
>> Why do we have to forbid everything we can't think of
>> a use for ?
>
>I could think of a use for it, just as I could think of
>a use for microtonal notation, gregorian notation, etc.
>But I think that this are all highly specialized
>extensions that will have to wait for a following
>standardization attempt.

Hear, hear!

Bernard Hill
Braeburn Software
Author of Music Publisher system
Music Software written by musicians for musicians
http://www.braeburn.co.uk
Selkirk, Scotland

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