I wouldn't go that far. A courtesy accidental is very helpful on those occasions when you really mean to have an F# and and F-nat at the same time in an otherwise tonal piece. More of a "this is not a printing error" thing. Granted, a non-courtesy would do just fine in that instance, too.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 19, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Patrick Sheehan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Courtesy accidentals (ANYWHERE) are for the weak. If you *need* them in the > part, then that means you're not following the key signature. Back to > school! > > [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 12:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Finale] random thoughts on 2014 > > 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 > > >> On Sun Nov 10, at SundayNov 10 12:39 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: >> >> >> For those of us with imperfect eyesight, we cannot always see the >> accidental clearly. If I can see that there is an accidental, then I >> can make a quick judgment about whether it is most likely a flat, sharp, >> or natural and be right almost all the time. People who add unnecessary >> accidental markings without parenthesizing them should be shot, IMHO. >> And people who pencil in unnecessary accidentals BESIDE notes in the >> music should also be shot. If one needs a reminder about a note, write >> the accidental ABOVE the note, with a parenthesis and there will never >> be any confusion. IMHO, the only time an accidental should be penciled >> BESIDE a note is when correcting a misprint. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
