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Re: Shouldn't brackets take accidentals into account?


From: Carl Sorensen
Subject: Re: Shouldn't brackets take accidentals into account?
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:24:59 -0600

On 10/8/10 6:40 AM, "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden> wrote:


> 
> The printed scores I looked at are quite inconsistent about that. Most
> of the time their brackets start well before the note anyway, so it's
> hard to tell whether accidentals make a difference or not. I spotted a
> few places where the bracket is clearly aligned with the accidental,
> but it's hardly consistent.
> 
> What do Ross&Co. have to say about that?

For ottava indications:

As far as I can see, Ross and Stone say nothing about it, and they have no
examples with accidentals.

Read says "The sign itself --8 , or 8va or 15, for example -- should go
directly above or below the *first note* of the passage affected.  It should
not start over rests, barlines, tied notes, or -- to put it plainly --
anywhere else."  (emphasis in original.

I could find no examples showing accidentals.  In most of the examples shown
in Read, the number is centered on the notehead, and the bracket continues
until the end of the final note in tha passage, including any dots.  There
are a few examples where the start of the octavation indication starts just
before the notehead.

I don't think it would be wrong to have the number line up with the
accidental, but I don't think it's required, either.

For pedal indications:

Pedal indications are under the notehead, not under the accidental (Reed
example 18.4)  Brackets seem to enclose the notes (example 18-23 has them
including an arpeggio indicator), even though the text says "is is essential
that the sign be placed *precisely under* the beat or fraction of the beat"
(emphasis in original).

As far as I can see, there is nothing that says accidentals should be
included in brackets.

HTH,

Carl





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