Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2011-12-13 19:44
Let me chip in as a player from the lesser end of the musical food chain:
1. If the piece is written in a "weird" mode, I'd prefer it written as Cnat with explicit accidentals. Nothing worse than having five sharps or flats and a bunch of natural accidentals throughout the piece.
2. I generally prefer the enharmonic accidental-less note - the sheet simply looks less busy.
3. I know that "cleaning up" is a task of its own; when I see "E# E# E# E# | F F F F | E# E# E# E#" then I know that this step has been omitted. Same as when a complex phrase consists of mostly accidentals which could, upon typesetting the phrase half a step up or down, mostly be eliminated.
4. I am used to getting scores where none these wishes are honored, and I somehow survived it.
I am aware that many of these tweaks aren't musically "pure", and that in many people's eyes a B# is no the same as a Cnat - I don't really care, neither does my instrument. The less cluttered a sheet is, the better can I play the music. It's like driving your car through an unknown city during rush hour - the less traffic signs, the more you can concentrate on the traffic.
(I do all my music in LilyPond, so I know how much work is involved in cleaning up)
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Ben
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