Re: accidentals

David Kaczorowski ( kaczordk@UMDNJ.EDU )
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 21:33:17 -0500 (EST)

Wow! I'm stunned. I can't imagine how I developed a *belief* to the
contrary. I'm sure I wasn't taught incorrectly. The mind does funny
things. Even stranger, when I wrote my last post I was sure I had just
recently played something in my lessons supporting my false belief. I'll
bet now though I hadn't. Thanks for the quotation.

peace,
David Kaczorowski
kaczordk@umdnj.edu

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, John Harrison wrote:
>
> FWIW, this is from "Music Notation, A Manual of Modern Practice" by Gardner
> Read, p. 129:
>
> "When an accidental not included in a key signature precedes any note, it
> affects the pitch it precedes - and *no other* - for that *one measure
> only*. In the example..., the natural sign before the c" affects only that
> pitch, not c' or c"'. If these other c-pitches are to be natural also, it
> is necessary to use a natural sign before them."
>
> (The example shows one measure in A major containing c', c", and c"', with a
> natural sign in front of only the c".)
>
>
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> John Harrison
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> Singer, Saxophonist, Bon Vivant
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>
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