On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Dirk Laurie wrote:
1. The accidental also applies to notes on the same stave that are an octave away.
This was true in the old days. In more modern music the composers want more often a note with an accidental at one octave and without accidendal at another octave.
Note that some typeset-to-MIDI converters may adhere to the old convention and provide unwanted accidentals in the MIDI file.
2. The accidental must always be explicitly cancelled if the next note of the following bar is at the same height, even if not tied.
You're raising the problem of "courtesy accidental". If the note after the bar is not tied and the accidental is not intended the habit is to put the cancelling accidental.
Probably a remnant of times where the accidental had a tendency to last for a couple of bars.
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