Patrick, Your lackadaisical attitude towards cautionary accidentals will lead to many misinterpretations of your music.
I find that the cautionary accidentals leave little to speculation as to whether a note continues to be a flat , natural, or sharp and eliminates major confusion for the interpreter. I have found a major offender in the published music of Hal Leonard. There are many areas in their music where no clear solution is evident including a reading of the vertical instance. I believe that the non-use of cautionary accidentals will leave a lot of musical texts unreadable in the future. The notational reading and realization of early music is an excellent example of trying for years to decide which of the interpretations of a squiggle is correct. Is this not true in this case? Cautionary accidentals are necessary to avoid any confusion about the pitch of a note, thank you very much! Don't be lazy! mmathew_musicp...@yahoo.com http://www.musicengravers.com/cgi-bin/engravers.pl http://oregonmts.com/mathew/ >________________________________ > From: Patrick Sheehan <patricksheehanmu...@gmail.com> >To: finale@shsu.edu >Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 5:52 AM >Subject: Re: [Finale] erratic cautionary accidental plugin > >Who needs courtesy accidentals? Such a crutch. Forget it! > >Patrick J. M. Sheehan >Music Director, Instructor: Woodlawn Arts Academy >P. S. Music >Host: "The Saturday Blues" on 89.5 WNIJ-FM, 1 pm - 4 pm (CST) & WNIJ.org >1-815-973-2317 (m) > >patricksheehanmu...@gmail.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chuck Israels [mailto:cisra...@comcast.net] >Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:33 AM >To: finale@shsu.edu >Subject: Re: [Finale] erratic cautionary accidental plugin > >Perfect! Jari to the rescue again. > >Sent from my iPhone > >On Sep 20, 2012, at 1:36 AM, Jari Williamsson ><jari.williams...@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote: > >> On 2012-09-20 02:31, Chuck Israels wrote: >>> The most annoying is that accidentals that >>> appeared correctly in the file now have parentheses >>> applied to them necessitating a meticulous process >>> of removing them - a process that is only slightly >>> less harrowing than proof reading the file and entering >>> the cautionary accidentals by hand. Incidentally, my >>> plugin is set to show no parentheses even on the >>> cautionary accidentals. >> >> I don't use the Cautionary Accidentals plug-in myself, but if you want >> to remove all the parentheses from your accidentals, you can do that >> easily in the JW Change (Beta). Accidentals->Parentheses->Hide and apply >> on the whole document. >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> Jari Williamsson >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >Finale@shsu.edu >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
