On 7-May-07, at 10:41 AM, Chuck Israels wrote:
On May 6, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Randolph Peters wrote:
For example, I sometimes get asked if an accidental in one octave
affects another octave. (Where are these otherwise fine musicians
taught anyway?) I find it an especially strange question when the
music is far from tonal.
I've had trouble with this one - fine musicians in the Metropole
Orchestra assumed that an accidental in a lower octave carried over
to a higher octave. I did not intend that, and the result was that
I missed the error in the rehearsals and recorded the piece with
the wrong pitch. (Not doing my job as well as I should have
been.) So what is the rule, and does it change from place to place
and culture to culture? I have assumed, new octave = new
situation. Perhaps this is not right.
I always learned that the accidental only applies to the measure and
octave it originally appears in. However, I learned through the
school of hard knocks that musicians don't always take that for
granted (in these days of hurried copying and notation programs not
always doing what they are told, and maybe there ARE cultural
differences from region to region.) So I mark the courtesy
accidental, so as to avoid any doubt.
But it would be in TONAL music where the question would be strange,
as it should be obvious in conventional situations.
The other thing that always catches me (and other musicians) is when
to perform repeats on a DS. In school I learned that the rule is NOT
to repeat on DS, but that is an old carryover from rounded binary
forms, and hardly anyone observes it in modern works. Now I mark DS
(with repeat) or DS (no repeat) and mark it again at the sign "no
repeat on DS" or "play twice on DS" (there is no way to mark legibly
"repeat is good" or "do the repeat", and "play 2x" might mean play
second time, so "play twice" is beyond misunderstanding.)
Christopher
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