On 9 Sep 2005 at 6:21, Darcy James Argue wrote: > [So far, the thread seems to be leaning towards "or not," especially > if the accidental in question is parenthesized.]
My feeling is that you don't really need a "rule" for this. All you need is to ask yourself: Is the notation unambiguous so that every musician, whatever their assumptions about "rules," will play exactly the same notes? So, it seems to me that, whether you think the tiedl accidental carries through the whole measure or not, you *must* put a cautionary or real accidental on the additional notes in the measure to clarify what pitch is to be played. That issue is entirely independent of the system break circumstances. To me, a tied note's accidental continues through the remainder of the measure it initiates, even if it's not repeated at a system break, but I probably reach that conclusion because my work is mostly with music that is wholly tonal where it's quite common to be parsimonious with accidentals (indeed, leaving out many that would be considered obligatory in modern engraving, i.e., in 18th-century sources, one G# makes all the Gs sharp, in all octaves). This reminds me of arguments about bibliographic citations -- it doesn't matter which style you use, as long as your provide all the information unambiguously, and do so consistently. Indeed, I've always been hostile to the whole concept of using Ross, Read, et al., as authorities, since their "rules" are not binding on me, they are just recommendations for a consistent style of engraving. Yes, there's lots of common sense in there, but that doesn't mean that the rules they come up with must apply to all cases. In fact, I think the Peters organ music I looked at that lacked the accidental at the beginning of a tie broken across a system was completely unambiguous, because it's *keyboard music* and there's plenty of information in the other voices to provide a clear harmonic context that makes the cautionary accidntal wholly superfluous. It's very different in, say, a violin part, where the harmonic context can only be inferred. Then, the cautionary accidental after the system break beomces pretty important, as there's no other information for the player to use to disambiguoate the accidental. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
