Apologies for dragging up old threads, but I've been away for a while.
jhoerr writes:
>What does this prove, except that *your* rules are self-defeating and
>incomplete? If your rules imply a contradiction where even novice
>musicians agree on a single interpretation, don't you think maybe the
>problem is with how you stated them?
>
Oddly enough, that occurred to me. While I couldn't find a copy
of Norton's, I did find that but "Music Notation" by Mark McGrain says
"When an accidental not included in the key signature precedes a note,
it affects only that pitch in that octave, for the duration of the entire
measure or until it is "cancelled" by another accidental,"
which is about what I said, and, on the next page, he says
"An accidental applies to the full duration of the note that it attends."
Which is what you said. Then it goes on to say, "Therefore an accidental
should not precede a note that has been tied over from the measure before,
though it must be restated at the first recurrence of that pitch in
the new measure," which I don't remember anyone saying. So in the
old example ^f-|f, apparently it's not only unnecessary to write
^f-|^f, it's actually incorrect. There is an exception---of course---for
a couple of pages later he writes that it is permissible to put a
courtesy accidental on the note after a page-turn, i.e. if it
has been tied over from the previous page.
Hmmm.
Cheers,
John Walsh
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