Re: Accidental placement above/below note

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Friday 23 September 2005 01:31 pm, Ruud van Silfhout wrote:
> As I am just an amateur regarding music notation I have a question 
> concening the attached piece of music.
> The natural shown below the last note, is that meant as a natural 
> normally placed before the note?

It is a comment.  If you want it played, best put it before the note.
It's commonly used in textbooks, not so much in performing editions.

 And is this an alternative (standard) 
> notation for accidentals?  And if so, can this be done by lilypond. I 
> know you can of course do this by adding a markup, but I was wondering 
> if this could be done using some kind of property of accidentals or 
> accidentalplacement. I also think that the accidental is somewhat 
> smaller than the normal accidental.

Yes.  You don't really need it unless you are writing something
about music, rather than music.  daveA

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