Klarinet Archive - Posting 000209.txt from 2007/06

From: "colin.touchin@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] accidentals
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:37:01 -0400

For us Brits I suspect Fowler is equivalent to US Strunk & White.
I was taught, and have read in every notation book including Gardner
Read's remarkable and invaluable work, the accidental only affects the
note in that octave - but it is advisable where two octaves of the same
letter-name appear to add a cautionary accidental if the second octave
appearance is different; which practically works out that any subsequent
appearance at a different octave within the same bar usually carries an
accidental to prevent misunderstandings.
While on the subject of accidentals, do readers carry an accidental on a
grace-note to affect a main note of the same pitch later in the bar? (Read
says not to). Particularly what notes do players habitually play in Poulenc's
Sonata for Two Clarinets, movement 3, bar 3 et seq., upper part? (grace-
note G# at start of bar, but two main-note G naturals following? or all G#s).
Colin.

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