At 1:12 AM -0800 5/27/03, Mark D. Lew wrote:At 9:01 AM 05/25/03, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
It's my understanding that cancelling outgoing key signatures with naturals is archaic, kind of like separate beaming of eighths on each syllable was popular a century ago. I never do it.
It is my understanding, too, that canceling outgoing key signatures is an older standard, and the modern standard is to not cancel them -- but I wouldn't go so far as to use the word "archaic", which to me suggests several centuries old. I would guess that the new tradition is not much more than onea century old, if even that.
I could be wrong, but the change I think I've seen between late 19th century orchestral engraving and 20th century engraving is not a change in whether to cancel accidentals, but in where to put the cancelation. Cancelling before the bar line gives a warning; cancelling after the barline sometimes makes a real mess that the eye can't grasp intuitively.
John
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