[David H. Bailey:]
>You can set different staves to be in different keys, if that is what
>you mean by bitonal or polytonal.
Yes, that is what I meant.
>And you can create the custom key
>signatures you mentioned, so it seems as if the program can do what you
>are asking.
Yes, it does.
I'm just curious (although it's not important, I suppose) why Finale caters
for up to 127 sharps or flats. Although 7 is the theoretical maximum, and
almost always the maximum found in practice too, I would consider it good for a
program to allow more than that, say up to 14 or so, just to allow for people
who want to exceed that for some reason, such as the score I mentioned which
changed to Db minor for a few bars. Whether this is a good idea, instead of
using C# minor, may be open to debate (I found the example just cited perfectly
clear, though, and for only a few bars I might even find it preferable to
suddenly having to switch my thinking to sharps, then go back to flats again);
but in any case, I don't believe software should dictate what people should do
in situations like this, but simply do as it's told (as far as possible).
So allowing more sharps or flats is reasonable up to a point, in view of
this. But why up to as many as 127 sharps or flats? Is there a reason for
this? - it does seem a bit over the top, in generosity of going beyond the
standard limits. Or might it perhaps have just made the programming easier (127
being 1 less than a power of 2), and at least do no harm?
Just curious.
Regards,
Michael Edwards.
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