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Eric Galluzzo writes:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > The obvious suggestion is yet another %% directive. I wonder what
| > would be the simplest, most elegant notation for these two options?
|
| Alternatively, another rule (I don't know if this is sensible or not, but I figured
|I'd
| throw it out there :) ) might be:
|
| * if there is only one of a particular accidental in the key signature, it
|applies to
| all octaves;
| * if an accidental occurs in more than one octave, it applies to only the octave
|in
| which it is expressed.
|
| Clear as mud? :)
|
| So, K:^f would apply the F# to all octaves, but K:^f=F would apply ^f to f's and =F
|to
| F's. We then come to the question of what player programs should do when they
|encounter
| a f' or F, -- probably either issue an error or leave it natural.
Well, I remember seeing an explicit case like this a few years ago.
It was an transcription of a classical work from India, and the
written melody line covered nearly four octaves. When it came to the
high note in question, the answer was "Any musician able to play it
will consider the answer obvious."
This wasn't spoken facetiously. Even with my sketch knowledge of the
music, I also considered it obvious. The passage in question was
clearly one of the main themes, an octave high. So obviously the f
was natural and the f' was sharp, in that passage.
How you would program this into an ABC player, I have no idea.
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