Yum!! On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
