Re: bizarre musicxml key signatures

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Dienstag, 25. November 2008 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> The file
>
>   input/regression/musicxml/00g-Basics-Keys.xml
>
> shows really bizarre key signatures.  Who on earth needs
[...]
> (this is three sharps and 4 double sharps)?

In other words, that's e sharp major (Eis-Dur in German).

I admit, I don't think anyone has ever explictly written something in e sharp 
major (as opposed to f major, of course), but these examples are there as 
unit tests for musicxml2ly and just show that musicxml2ly and lilypond CAN 
handle such bizzare key signatures.
Finale, on the other hand messes up with 8 or more flats...

Don Byrd's "Extremes of Conventional Music Notation" 
(http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/donbyrd/CMNExtremes.htm) lists 7 flats / 
sharps as the most extreme key signatures to be found out in the wild.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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