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Re: Flats in sheet music

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-05-01 06:48

Philip Caron wrote:

> Yes, unless the note with the accidental is tied across the
> next bar line, in which case the accidental continues to apply
> into the tied-to bar and for the duration of the tied-to note,

Yes.

> and it affects the rest of that tied-to bar as if the tied-to
> note were actually marked with the accidental.

No. Only the tied-to note is still affected, not other notes of the same staff degree (letter name).

> What about accidentals in written-out cadenzas, where the bar
> lines are omitted?

It's hard to know how complicated to get with this topic. It depends on what music prompted the OP's question.

There are "classical" composers who only intend for the accidental to apply throughout the same measure in the octave it appears in, but not in other octaves. You have to sniff this out by looking for a systematic pattern in the music. Klose does this. I'm not sure without checking, but I think Paul Jean-Jan may be another example. This isn't likely to be something you would find in sheet music for a popular or jazz tune.

As to cadenzas without bar lines, you're generally on your own to figure out what was meant. A-metric pieces (without bar lines) from the 20th century into this one also can be confusing - the accidental logically only affects the one note it's applied to - repeated notes of the same letter name/staff degree need to have the chromatic sign repeated - or maybe not if the composer thinks exact repetition (including the chromatic) is so obvious that he doesn't need to waste the ink and labor. It's easier to work this out in a cadenza of a solidly tonal piece than it is in an aleatoric-sounding "avante-garde" piece which may lack both bar lines and key signatures or even tonal centers.

But to BGBG, this may all be more than you wanted to know. What sheet music were you thinking of?

Karl

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