So I am curious what this list thinks. You are writing a piece in A lydian mode. Do you use four sharps in the key sig or do you use three sharps and show the raised fourth as a chromatic alteration throughout the piece?
I recently encountered this situation in some contemporary church music. I am a horn player, so key sigs are not my strong suit, but showing 4 sharps for a piece in A lydian drove me crazy (and this piece was lydian throughout, so the problem manifested over and over in other keys as well.) There was one solo where I played g-natural until the after the final run-through before I noticed the wrong note and corrected it for the performance. (The conductor was gonna let it go!) Maybe four sharps makes sense in some contexts (jazz? early music?) but it felt really wrong in contemporary church music, esp. consider the minimal rehearsal time such music gets. Yikes I just looked at Elaine Gould, and she allows any arbitrary key signature. I hope I never have to face that, and in any case would end up penciling every one of them in. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
