On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:40 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
Your argument would suggest that every single note should have a
courtesy accidental, and that's absurd.
Not only is it not absurd, it many styles it is by far the clearest
option. See, for example, the scores of George Crumb. Every note
has an acci, including naturals, except for immediate repetitions
of notes or patterns.
Oof! I just copied a clarinet part from Mahler, then another clarinet
part from Schoenberg (Kammersymphonie) (I was putting D clarinet
parts into Eb for a player who was worried about transposing at
sight) where pretty much every note had an accidental, even those in
the key sig. Naturals didn't though, for the most part.
The thing that was the most frustrating about the Finale aspect of
this job was that there was no setting or combination of settings
that I could find in the Cautionary Accidentals plugin that would
give me what I needed. I had to go through by hand and add or remove
after running the plugin. I found settings that were SUPPOSED to
work, but they didn't.
But we were talking about early music, where there are expectations
that have been around for a while. I just don't have a firm enough
understanding of what the expectations are in that case. And of
course, in case anyone was in any doubt, expectations ARE what we are
discussing, not logic or what should have been decided four hundred
years ago.
Christopher
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