>Finally, if we want to make life easier for people transcribing >from manuscript by permitting them to use an incomplete description >of key, perhaps we should do the same thing for those transcribing >by ear, and permit them to specify only the tonic. After all, >any competent musician who was familiar with the tradition concerned >should easily be able to figure out where to put the necessary >accidentals in order to make sense of the tune. It's not a completely >daft suggestion; it just shifts the reponsibility for working out >the difficult bit of the K: field from the transcriber to the user, >and is exactly analagous to the original suggestion.
In fact quite a lot of Highland pipers work in exactly that way - they don't have any idea what a sharp or flat is. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ food intolerance data & recipes, freeware Mac logic fonts, and Scottish music To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
