Re: SacredHarpHeads: possible solution to major/minor problem

[Jonathan Kulp]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> > It's hard to get my head around the idea of always contradicting
> > the key signature without notating the contradition
>
> I haven't been following this thread, but...
>
> Why don't you set the key signature to one thing, but override the 
> KeySignature #'stencil to say another?
> Wouldn't that be the easiest way to have a "global non-notated 
> accidental contradiction"?

This is essentially what using "\key g \dorian" would have done. 
The problem is that the shapes would end up on the wrong scale 
degrees.  I only learned about this last night, so my 
understanding is slight, but the tonic has a different shape in 
the minor than it does in the major in this tradition, and the 
shapes are assigned according to the relative major of a minor 
key. If you try to trick it, it'll put the shapes in the wrong 
places.  The key signature and the key have to match.

Jon
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