Steve P, I agree entirely. On seeing a cautionary accidental without parenthesis I would, for a split second, think I must have missed a natural earlier. That split second is enough to disturb my sight reading.
All the best, Lawrence On 10 November 2013 19:43, Steve Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > another differing opinion.. > I sightread a lot for a living, but I don't like cautionarys without > parentheses - I find they make my eyes skip back to the key sig. or > original accidental to check. > In keyless music, parantheses are usually redundant. > > Steve P. > > On 10 Nov 2013, at 20:27, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > If you will permit a somewhat differing opinion, I think there are > places where cautionaries are necessary, even when there isn't a key > change, and I have figured out after many years that NON-parenthesised ones > actually are easier to read. > > > > I know that parentheses make logical sense, that a parenthesised > accidental is kind of like saying, "I KNOW you know this, but here's a > reminder" to differentiate it from one that is absolutely necessary. But > from a distance, parentheses around an accidental makes all three (sharp, > flat, and natural) into the same outline, so you have to read more closely > to see which accidental it actually is. Already, sharps and naturals are > easy to confuse with each other; the parentheses make it worse. I keep > getting caught by these on the gigs I do where the Finale user is less than > professional. And Sibelius seems to have this redundant accidental default > that puts in accidentals on the SECOND of two tied notes! > > > > Christopher > > > -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
