> On 9 Feb 2020, at 15:09, Graham King <lilyp...@tremagi.org.uk> wrote: > > From a speed-reading of Gould, it appears that she uses the verb "alter" and > the adjective "altered", but _not_ the noun "alteration" in this context. > > It is worth noting that "alteration" has a very specific and well-established > meaning in early music. This meaning has nothing whatsoever to do with > pitch. I've, ahem, altered that Wikipedia disambiguation page accordingly. > > The original section header in the LM seemed fine to me, but if it needs to > change, how about "Note names and use of accidentals" ? It seems to me that > a user wanting to use the document to figure out how to specify an > accidental, is quite likely to search for that word.
In the Harvard Concise: Accidentals are symbols used to indicated pitch alterations. There are altered chords and rhythm alterations in early music.