> 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.
Perhaps, but that was not what I meant. My idea was the following: In ABC, an "c" is not always an "c". For example, if "K:A" applies to a tune, "c" suddenly means "^c" (c sharp). The most logical (though perhaps not the most practical) way to treat accidentals, I think, would be that "=" meant "reset the following note to the applied key". A notation like that does not need to be cumulative, just relative. If I play in G dorian, I'm more interested in the way a note differs from Gdor than the way it is actually played. It do understand the usefullness (is that good English?) in the current system, but still: since ABC is, in a way, "key-relative", it seems a little strange to me that accidentals are written "absolute". Erik __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
