OK, you're notating a blues in D -- that's D mixolydian. What's your key signature, the standard 2 sharps with an accidental for every C, or 1 sharp to reflect the mode?
Big arguments about this one.
You have pretty much laid it out, it makes sense when one is in a mode to use the key signature of the mode, like D minor is the same as F major, so C mixolydian should be the same as well, right?
But on the other hand, musicians are used to conceiving keys as relating to EITHER major or minor ones, right? So any major mode would take the key signature of the major KEY with the same tonic (G mixo would take one sharp, but use F natural accidentals), and any minor mode would take the MINOR key signature (D dorian would take one flat, but use b natural accidentals).
THe latter is the method I use, and the one I suggest to my students - the first option you mentioned. And be prepared to argue with some people about it.
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