Re: Doc: Some miscellaneous suggestions from Peter Toye (issue 579280043 by address@hidden)

[lilypond]

Sunday, February 9, 2020, 2:16:50 PM, you wrote:

> I'm a native US speaker.  The following is my opinion.

> Alteration is a change in pitch from the base
> pitch.  Base pitch is C,
> alteration is sharp, actual pitch is C#.

> Accidental is a change in pitch from the
> standard scale pitch.  As
> mentioned by Peter, C# in a D major scale is
> not an accidental, although
> it is an alteration.

Surely "standard scale pitch or previously altered pitch". In D major: "cis c 
cis" the first note is an alteration but not an accidental, the second is an 
accidental but not an alteration, the third is both. Now I'm really splitting 
hairs.

I'm beginning to think that this is all getting too theologial. I'm a 
practising musician, not a theorist, and I raised the point as I'd never heard 
of 'alteration' used in this rather technical sense. If people are happy with 
the distinction let's just keep it and I withdraw my suggestion.

> I would totally support cleaning up this in NR 1.1.1 Accidentals (Note
> -- we don't have 1.1.1.4 in the NR; the lowest
> level of headings is not
> numbered).

I agree with the last sentence, but it was the easiest way of describing the 
subsubsubsection in the time available.

> Carl

> https://codereview.appspot.com/579280043/

Peter