Klarinet Archive - Posting 000276.txt from 2003/07

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Teaching problem
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:36:42 -0400

I'm surprised that ten people haven't already jumped in here. Maybe y'all
didn't read Kelly's long post very carefully, but this really jumped out at
me. The book is correct, and Kelly is not. "In modern practice a sign affects
the note immediately following and is valid for all the notes of the same
pitch (but not in different octaves) within the same measure." --Willi Appel,
Harvard Dict. of Music, 1944. What Bach would think isn't the issue, because
notation practice has changed more than once since his time. Kelly seemed to
be talking about 19th- and early 20th-century practice. You have to be
careful about context when making blanket statements about notation: a
manuscript from 1560 or a "serious" work written in 1960 might have an
accidental applying _only_ to the one note, not to repeated notes following
it.

--Doug Sears

----- Original Message -----
From: "CBA" <clarinet10001@-----.com> [how's that for an anonymous e-mail
address?]

> accidentals. The book erroneously says that an accidental in the
> measure only affects the notes on that space or line, and not
> the octaves. I think Bach would have some choice words for
> her...lol! I just make sure I cross that out WAY before we get
> to it, and rewrite it to say that an accidental affects ALL of
> the notes in that measure, regardless of the octave.

> Kelly Abraham

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