On Nov 10, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > People who add unnecessary > accidental markings without parenthesizing them should be shot, IMHO.
I think this is a case of different styles. You are correct for music in a key. In keyless music, it is the people who don't provide thoughtful cautionary accidentals (without parentheses to clutter things up) who should be shot. If I use F# in the first beat of a complicated measure, and if that F# is just a note (not related to a key or easily perceived mode), using F# late in the measure without a cautionary, or an F early in the next measure without a natural, will slow the player down, make her pull out a pencil to mark those notes, and may, in fact be played wrong at the concert. My method for my keyless music is pretty standard these days, and was learned from dozens of years of striving towards the complaint-free first rehearsal. Also, I'm married to a new-music specialist pianist (Eliza Garth), so I've had plenty of opportunities to see accidentals done poorly and done well... David Froom _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
