I totally agree that cautionary accidentals without parens cause me to glance back as well.
And don't forget singers. Cautionary accidentals in parens need to be present when there's a cross-relation on or nearby. This also goes for astute string players -- in a piece of mine a few weeks ago, an A-flat in one part was followed by an A-natural in another, and the second player stopped to make sure that it wasn't a mistake. Dennis On Sat, November 29, 2014 12:06 pm, Steve Parker wrote: > I do a lot of sight-reading too, including an increasing amount of stuff > printed for audition from the internet in keys like E#.. > Cautionarys without parentheses cause my eyes to skip back and check the key > or the previous accidental . > > My preference is: > > If the note is changed by the accidental, then obviously no parentheses. > If the note is not changed by the accidental then it is not really an > ‘accidental’ and should be parenthesised. > > Clearly, there are modern (and ancient) situations where the rules are > different - in 17-limit JI I have accidentals on every note, no parentheses. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
