Re: [abcusers] RE : The day the music died! & voting for abc standard

[Frank Nordberg]

Laurie Griffiths wrote:
> 
> The way that I (and hence Muse too) interpret chord symbols is that they are
> a musical voice of their own and hence are not affected by any key signature
> that might be on any other voice.  Thus if you write K:Eb (or equivalently
> put 3 flats on a staff) and then write "E" (or write E as a chord under or
> over a bar) then that means E major.
> 
> Is that not how the world works?

As far as I know, yes.
There might be occasions where you'd like to include "cautionary
naturals" in a chord, but I can't remember to have actually seen
anything like that.


Frank Nordberg
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