> I'd imagine that this could make the music difficult to read at
> times. You'd have to stop, backup, and add up the accidentals to
> figure out how to play a note. In a measure with many accidentals,
> the capacity of a mere human's short-term memory could be easily
> overflow
John Chambers wrote:
>
> Just out of curiosity, are there any musical traditions/styles that
> use a relative (or cumulative) approach?
Actually yes. That's how it was done untill way into the 17th Century.
>
> I'd imagine that this could make the music difficult to read at
> time
They are absolute. Thus, no matter what key you are in, "_e" means E flat.
- Eric
> -Original Message-
> From: Erik Ronström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> What the accidentals =, ^, _ mean? Are they "absolute" (e g "_e" means
> "e flat") or are they in relation to the key (e g "=e"
| > Just out of curiosity, are there any musical traditions/styles that
| > use a relative (or cumulative) approach? I've never seen any, but
| > that doesn't mean they don't exist.
|
| It's quite common in early music for a sharp-turned-45-degrees sign to
| mean either a sharp or a naturali
>|| What the accidentals =3D, ^, _ mean? Are they "absolute" (e g "_e" means
>|| "e flat") or are they in relation to the key (e g "=3De" means "e flat"
>|| in Bb major)?
>| They're absolute, just as in conventional music notation.
> Just out of curiosity, are there any musical traditions/styles
| Erik Ronstr=F6m writes:
| | What the accidentals =3D, ^, _ mean? Are they "absolute" (e g "_e" means
| | "e flat") or are they in relation to the key (e g "=3De" means "e flat"
| | in Bb major)?
|
| They're absolute, just as in conventional music notation.
Just out of curiosity, are there any m
Erik Ronstr=F6m writes:
| What the accidentals =3D, ^, _ mean? Are they "absolute" (e g "_e" means
| "e flat") or are they in relation to the key (e g "=3De" means "e flat"
| in Bb major)?
They're absolute, just as in conventional music notation.
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>What the accidentals =, ^, _ mean? Are they "absolute" (e g "_e" means
>"e flat") or are they in relation to the key (e g "=e" means "e flat"
>in Bb major)?
Accidentals in abc work exactly in the same way as in modern staff
notation, that is "_e" means "e flat", even if the e was sharp or flat
a
On Fri 07 Dec 2001 at 11:57AM +, Erik Ronström wrote:
> What the accidentals =, ^, _ mean? Are they "absolute" (e g "_e" means
> "e flat") or are they in relation to the key (e g "=e" means "e flat"
> in Bb major)?
Accidentals are absolute, which is how they are in standard stave
notation.
J
What the accidentals =, ^, _ mean? Are they "absolute" (e g "_e" means
"e flat") or are they in relation to the key (e g "=e" means "e flat"
in Bb major)?
Erik Ronström
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