Re: [Finale] Redundant accidentals

[Lon Price]

On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Actually, come to think of it, I find the whole idea of a "courtesy accidental" more than a little weird. When I write an accidental, parenthesized or not, there is no courtesy involved! It's just me, as a composer, doing my damnedest to get the players to play what I want them to play instead of something else. Maybe they'll have the courtesy to do that, but experience has taught me not to hold my breath. I hear you!  Likewise for me.  However, some of my better students (those actually capable of thinking and playing in a particular key) do sometimes get confused by "courtesy" accidentals, since I've drilled into their heads that the barline cancels out any "real" accidental.  But when I'm writing for a recording session I almost always put in courtesy accidentals, but I never use a parenthesis.  I find parenthesized accidentals too hard to read. Maybe I need better glasses. ;-) ******************************************** Lon Price, Los Angeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.txstnr.com>

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