New wrinkle in this heated conversation: I prefer tiny cautionary accidentals above the note, does anyone else? Avoids the parentheses questions, but not as quick to apply in Finale. So I don't use them much. In the big project I just finished, which was played by good high school strings with a few rehearsals and pros with next to none, I freely used parenthesized cautionary accis - frequently. My cent and 1/2. On Nov 29, 2014 8:54 PM, "Robert Patterson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> My perspective is that if the key of the moment does not match the key > signature, any chromatic alterations within the key of the moment should be > shown even if they are already in the key sig. Personally I don't think > parens are necessary but I suppose they don't hurt anything. For example, > if the key sig is G-Major, but the piece has modulated to D-Major, if there > is a V7/IV chord (in D-Maj) that calls for C-nat, the C-nat should be > shown, irrespective of the fact that there is no C-sharp in the key sig. > > I'm a horn player. For nearly all the standard rep music we don't see key > signatures, so for music that has them I tend to pencil in nearly every > accidental anyway. But I really believe relying on a key signature to show > chromatic alterations for a passage not in the key of the key signature is > where you are mostly likely to trip up a sight-reader. > > (FWIW: Instead of using key sigs we horn players play in keys. I've played > Auf Dem Strom in the original E, in D, and I've seen a version in C. But I > just play the same part, written in C Major, in whichever key the singer > wants.) > > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Chuck Israels <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > They are called courtesy accidentals. > > > > Perhaps a little courtesy in speaking about your point of view and > > experience vs that of others would be welcome. > > > > My experience with tonal but often modulating music played by highly > > educated and able musicians differs from yours. That doesn't lead me to > > denigrate your perspective nor to invite expletives in discussing which > > practices might work better in different circumstances. > > > > I will speak for myself: when I am playing in Db and there are passages > > with D naturals, I appreciate a courtesy accidental when the tonality of > > the moment later demands a Db, and I don't care if it lacks parentheses. > So > > do many musicians with whom I work. That practice can help prevent > > mistakes when it is used consistently. > > > > There may be a number of considerations that argue for or against this > > practice. What seems clear to me is that it is working well under the > > conditions I live in. > > > > That's all I'll say about it at the moment. > > > > Chuck > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On Nov 29, 2014, at 11:35 PM, Craig Parmerlee <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > the > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
