On 06 Jul, 2004, at 09:43 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
Just so I understand where you're coming from, are you really unwilling to call "uncooth" an incorrect spelling, here in the English-speaking world of the early twenty-first century?
Yep.
If I wrote the key signature for Bb major with the Eb before the Bb, is that really just "unconventional"?
Yep.
If you were grading my theory assignment, would I not lose points for being wrong?
You betcha.
My job as a theory teacher is to teach you the conventions, and your job as a student is to learn them.
Let's say you came from some hypothetical musical community with rigorous notational standards of its own, where everyone agreed that the key signature for Bb major *was* written with the Eb before the Bb. You aren't *wrong* to do that, and that community isn't *wrong* either. But if you then decide to enroll at Juilliard, you have to learn the way they do things at Juilliard (which, in this case, happens to correspond with the way they do things in the rest of the world).
Let me give you a better real-world hypothetical:
If you were teaching at an American conservatory, and a British student handed in a midterm paper full of references to "crotchets" and "minims" and "hemidemisemiquavers" -- are they wrong? But would you correct them?
What about a French student who eschewed English pitch names in favor of do, re, mi, etc.?
- Darcy
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