Okay, I'm sure this has come up before, but I'm just wondering what folks' feelings are on the usage of cautionary accidentals in non-tonal music.
My practice for over 30 years has been to use the traditional system, but with unparenthesized cautionary accidentals added wherever caution might seem prudent, as for example:
in augmented seconds, thirds, sixths, sevenths. recurrences in another octave. recurrences following a change of clef, or after an 8va or loco instruction. recurrences after complex intervening material.
I very seldom use parenthesized cautionaries, reserving these for situations where one instrument has an enharmonic clash with another--where the absence of an accidental in one part might be misconstrued as an engraving error.
I find the convention of putting accidentals before every note except for immediate repetitions to be not only unnecessary, but wasteful of space and an impediment to legibility.
-- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press
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