On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:03:09 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anybody explain why, despite having a "fs" specified by the current key > (for G Major), "fs" or "fis" needs to be specified, rather than just > assuming that the key fills in the gaps?
I think that a main misconception is that a key signature "makes" certain notes altered. A key signature is only an _aid_ for writing down a piece of music _clearly_ so that the musicians who will end up playing it can understand/follow it without much fuss. When you're a composer,transcriber,musicologist, performer or any other music professional you know that regardless of what's in the key signature a G major scale has an F sharp as the 7th scale tone. It is not an F. It's an F sharp. While ther was a necessity to provide a shortcut via key signatures, it was mainly for clarity related reasons. However the person who is writing the music (and the performer who is reading it), when s/he sees a note on the fifth line in a G Major key, s/he knows it is an F sharp and not an F. So, in a textual mode of describing a score, it will alaways be f sharp. I think it is a good idea to keep it this way because just by looking at the notes (g fis g d) you know exactly what they are wi. HTH ./MiS -- Michal Seta CreaZone http://www.creazone.com No One Receiving http://www.noonereceiving.32k.org _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
