Re: Repeated accidental after tie across line break

[Shane Brandes]

I never make mistakes playing until someone throws in a cautionary
accidental. Somehow they often become something other than the note it
already is on account of that extra visual distraction. There is for
me a need to change the note even though it would have been correct
without such additional cautions. Unless the passage is extremely
ambiguous i strongly prefer to have them left out. i.e. use such
practices as are from the classical era. In a tied situation as that
it is a sin.  One should never read backwards your mind and fingers
have already passed through that and must know where they are destined
to go next. If you cannot remember what a chord is from one staff to
the next you are simply not concentrating.

Shane

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I don't see the ambiguity.
>
> So, upon seeing the screenshot I sent, you immediately knew that it was a 
> C-natural, even though there's a C-sharp in the key signature and no other 
> [contradicting] accidental?
> You should be the star of a clairvoyance show in Vegas!  ;)
>
>> The note is tied anyway and not to be articulated
>> if I were to start playing from that measure. If I want to play the note I
>> have to look back anyway.
>
> Yes, but if there's no line break, you only have to look back a few cm — If 
> there's a line break, you have to look to the right a much longer distance, 
> then move up a system, register the correct accidental, then do the long 
> return trip to the original note. The "repeated" accidental saves this long 
> processing time.
>
>> I don't think this has something to do with classical or non-classical
>> music or a piece having or not having a key signature.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Best regards,
> Kieren.
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