Bernard Hill writes: | 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.
Well, I'd suggest that for the current standard effort, we just quietly ignore the topic. In most cases, musicians will be following the rule that accidentals apply in all octaves, so for them it doesn't matter where the key-sig accidentals are drawn. It would be useful if music formatters would notice the capitalization and draw the key-sig accidentals on the corresponding line or space. But this is just to make it look nice; it normally won't mean anything musically. And if some music shows up in which a note has different intonation in different octaves, it will be quite obvious in the key signature. Programs that don't want to handle this should probably produce an error message if they see something like [K:=D^d]. If there are no conflicts like this, you should just assume that all key-sig accidentals apply in all octaves, as usual. If we otherwise ignore it for now, then we can face the problem when we start getting bug reports from traditional Indian musicians that their "quite normal" K: lines are getting error messages that don't make sense. ;-) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
