On May 8, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Most courtesy accidentals I have seen are NOT parenthesised, but I confess that I hadn't noticed that until it was pointed out to me.
I'm not sure what the precise definition is, or if there even is a precise definition, but when I say "courtesy accidental" I mean an accidental which is not strictly necessary since that would be the correct note even if the accidental weren't there, and you're just providing the accidental as an extra reminder just in case. Maybe I should call them "reminder accidentals"?
As a general rule, I dislike parentheses around accidentals. I tend to believe that if an accidental is worth including, it's worth including without parentheses. The only time I'd want to put in parentheses is if I'm afraid the accidental without parentheses will tempt the reader to accidentalize some other note that shouldn't be. But that doesn't come up very often.
Otherwise, I only use the parentheses when the client asks for them. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
