On Jul 4, 2006, at 5:49 AM, Lon Price wrote:
I recently played through a set of clarinet etudes with a student, and
ran across an oddity. In the key of Bb, a couple E#s and B#s
occurred. The manuscript had a natural sign and then a sharp next to
the note in each instance, which seemed redundant to me, and confusing
to my student. I guess I've seen this before, but is it really
necessary to first cancel out the flat before entering the sharp?
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This was required in 18th-19th c. usage (because the note must be
raised two degrees), but was abandoned early in the 20th c. Whether to
preserve this convention in new editions of older music is a matter of
editorial taste. Me, I keep them in my editions, because they make
distant modulations *look* distant, and that's not trivial for the
performer to know.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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