Bernard Hill writes: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Robinson | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes | > | >Or K:E=f=c^G=d ? Longer, but maybe clearer. | | K:C ^g looks fine to me.
Well, it looks fine, but it has the wrong tonic. This doesn't matter on paper. But there are those of us who take advantage of the computer's ability to find stuff for us. This would cause it to match a search for tunes in C, which is not what you want if the tonic is E. This is part of the argument for making the tonic optional. K:C^g is misleading and causes bad matches. K:^g would be better, because it wouldn't give a mismatch. It wouldn't match a search for any tonic, of course, which is one of the reasons you'd prefer to have the tonic present. But at least it wouldn't match the wrong tonic. Of course, such searches are always prone to failure because people just give the wrong key. It's common to see K:G for tunes in E minor or A dorian. There's not a lot we can do about this except try to educate people. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
