We've had this discussion before, and I would just like to remind everyone that there is a valid dissenting opinion. I don't parenthesise courtesy accidentals any more, after having a whole slew of them misread in a bunch of fast-moving highly-chromatic passages. I understand why now; it's that putting parentheses around them gives every accidental the same shape, so they are easily confused in a fast passage. Even at the best of times, sharps and naturals are very close in shape, but jazz favouring flat keys helps avoid making that as big an issue. Most major publishers these days do not parenthesise courtesy accidentals either.
Christopher On Fri Nov 28, at FridayNov 28 10:11 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > If you parenthesize the cautionary accidentals, you will NEVER be called > on it by any serious musician. The very best musicians appreciate the > efforts of the composer/arranger/publisher to make them look good. > > I can't count the number of times that good musicians have made bad > entrances because an inept notation job that lacked simple things like > double bars to denote the structure or had goofy (but mathematically > correct) note durations. > > > On 11/28/2014 2:18 PM, arabus...@austin.rr.com wrote: >> Yes--I've always found that cautionary and other redundant accidentals save >> more time than they take to make. Only been called on the carpet for them a >> couple times. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
