Re: accidentals

Willie K. Yee, MD ( (no email) )
Fri, 03 Apr 1998 06:18:04 -0500

_Keyboard Theory, Preliminary Level_ by Grace Vandendool, says that
the accidental affects ONLY the line it is on, not other octaves.

Which authoritiy we gonna believe?

Obviously, whatever Reed says.

Speak, master.

David Kaczorowski wrote:
>
> I was taught an accidental affects that note regardless of in which
> octave
> that note later appears (same measure of course). If this is not so,
> my
> Simandl books have gross misprintings throughout.
>
> The only time I have seen accidentals not affect subsequent notes is
> in
> the chart for Mingus' "What Love", which is free meter, written
> without
> a time signature and bar lines.
>
> peace,
> David Kaczorowski
> kaczordk@umdnj.edu

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