Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre wrote:
And advanced musicians also will understand that a Db and a C# is the same during instructions. The number of sharps and flats shall always be kept as low as possible.
I agree that "the number of sharps and flats shall always be kept as low as possible" in principle, but one also has to take into account the number of changes from one key to another key. In the work in question, the modulation is from Cb to Ab -- which only changes 3 of the accidentals in the key signature. If the Cb section were to be written in B, then there would be 9 changes of accidentals (5 sharps to be naturalized plus 4 flats to be added), with some notes which had been sharps becoming flats. So to Klaus's "rule" I would add the following corollary:
While keeping the number of flats and sharps as low as possible, also take into account any key changes and select the keys on either side of the change depending on how many pitches would be affected by the change and keep the affected pitches to a minimum.
-- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
