I have no opinion to offer here on how to write accidentals in twelve-tone music, but I do want to take issue with this sentence that dhbailey wrote:

Good musicians will be able to perform it however it's written and bad musicians won't be able to perform it no matter what.

I'm not quite sure is meant by this, but the implication seems to be that since good musicians can read anything anyway it's not important to be clear. If so, I strongly disagree.


You could print all your parts in blue ink on green paper and good musicians could still play it. That doesn't mean it's OK. Clearer is always better, no matter how good or how bad the musicians. I don't know what's most clear in this case, but whatever it is, it's worth doing.

mdl

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