On Mar 5, 2004, at 2:51 PM, Crystal Premo wrote:
I do a lot of transpositions of Broadway and pop tunes for people to use at auditions, and I have a question about what happens with accidentals. Sometimes the new key is rife with double flats and double sharps. Is it acceptable to simplify those accidentals. If so, is there a way to have Finale do it? I don't usually get complaints about it, but with a Sondheim tune that has no guitar chords, it could be problematic.
First of all, you should be able to avoid most of that my simply choosing the right transposition interval. For example, if a piece is in Ab and the singer says she wants it taken down a major 3rd, you really want to make that a diminished 4th. If the piece has a modulated section, you may need to transpose that section differently from the main piece.
Beyond that, I myself would not hesitate to simplify the accidentals. The way I figure it, if you're transposing a song, part of your job is to make whatever adjustments are necessary to make it work well in the new key. When I do transpositions, I'll often make adjustments to clefs or cross-staffing as well, and occasionally fingering-related adjustments.
mdl
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