Nut, I don't know. It is certainly the opinion of one who enjoys the delicious crunchy sound of wrong notes.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Steve Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > This is nuts! > > Steve P. > > > On 19 Nov 2013, at 15:36, 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 > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
