>|>Why are the accidentals on the 2nd and 4th notes of the following
>|>"cautionary"?
>|>
>|>\input musixtex
>|>\smallaccid
>|>\instrumentnumber1
>|>\startpiece\addspace\afterruleskip%
>|>\Notes\ibu2i0\cna i\qb2i\fl i\qb2{ii}\tbu2\fl h\qb2h\en
>|>\endpiece
>|>\end
>|
>|Seriously, without any context it is impossible to answer or
>|speculate. For
>|example, if there had been a flat in the key signature, and if the
>|last note
>|in the previous bar had been a b-natural, and if it were a baroque piece,
>|then according to most interpretations of baroque conventions, the
>|first two
>|b's in the example should both be naturals, but not so according to modern
>|convention. Or, if there were no b-flat in the key signature, and if
>|the 99
>|bars leading up to this one had been in a tonality that did have a b-flat,
>|then a cautionary natural might be warranted. It's hard to think of any
>|circumstances where the a-flat should be cautionary, whether or not
>|there's
>|an a-flat in the key signature.
>|
>|There's also some confusion between the notation of cautionary and
>|editorial
>|accidentals. (A cautionary one has no real effect relative to the
>|convention
>|in place; an editorial accidental proposes a deviation from the convention
>|in effect, to correct an obvious or perceived error in the source). Since
>|they have completely different meanings, there should be consistently
>|different notations for them. In my published editions I ALWAYS put
>|cautionary accidentals in the staff, with parentheses, and editorial ones
>|above it, without parentheses, and usually explain that in a preface. But
>|Gardner Read says "On occasion the accidental-as-reminder [cautionary
>|accidental] is placed not before but over the note in question, with or
>|without parentheses."
Don: I think you've mis-understood my question. There's no reason
for those parentheses to be inserted according to the coding. And if
\smallaccid is removed, they are *not* inserted. This is a musixtex
*bug* and I was asking those who know the TeX coding better than I
do where the bug is (with the implicit suggestion that it should be
fixed).
The context of the music is as follows: it's a Purcell sonata in C but
he's taking us through a series of modulations on his way back to C. The
first note is definitely chromatic *in context* and that's why I thought
a cautionary accidental would be appropriate (though perhaps not really
necessary because of the following flat); but the two other accidentals
should *not* be cautionary and were not coded as such.
Bob T.
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