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Re: avoid slur help


From: Eyolf Østrem
Subject: Re: avoid slur help
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:50:46 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On 26.12.2008 (15:06), Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > If so then I'd just use d!4. instead.
> 
> No, it was common practice to put accidentals above notes in older times. 
> Sometimes these were meant to be optional, sometimes they were cautinary 
> accidentals. In any case, if you try to be close to the source, you should 
> write it above the note and not as d!4.

Slight correction: it is customary in modern editions to put editorial
accidentals above the note. They are not optional, but frequently left to
the performer to apply, according to more or less strict rules (see "Musica
ficta" in the docs).

Eyolf

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