David,
It is also perfectly reasonable for a person who has been writing
music for decades for it to make no sense. Why?
Because it makes no sense, and never did.
?
Why not a \followKeySignature command?
??
I can't remember who in this thread first suggested that when you
play an instrument you "follow the key signature", but this notion is
silly — and ultimately harmful (to music education).
When you play a piano, if you want to hear a d flat, you play a d
flat — you don't play a d and let the piano change the pitch for you
"according to the key signature". This is true of every instrument,
with the only exceptions being technologically-altered performances
(e.g., pressing the "transpose" button on a keyboard, or scordatura
on a string instrument).
The state of music education in the world — and especially North
America — is already dire enough; let's not accelerate the slide by
dumbing down notation entry under some misplaced desire to make
computer engraving "easier".
It would save typing
Yes... that's what we, as musicians, should be worried about... =\
it would make the notes blocks easier to read, for /musicians/ that
is.
I could not disagree with you more.
Regards,
Kieren.
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