Re: Accidental and clef change issue

[David Kastrup]

Shane Brandes <address@hidden> writes:

> I think the rule is thus. Clefs shall have no effect on accidentals
> and therefore notes after the clef change are altered by courtesy
> accidentals for ease of legibility or where the note occurs in a
> different octave which requires, in strict notation, its own
> accidental. On the reasoning that they, clefs, simply define where the
> pitches fall on the staff and no other information. I am pretty sure I
> have read that somewhere more authoritative than my cluttered head or
> the internets, but can't unfortunately cite the actual book.

I consider it likely that a sensible default would be to copy the
behavior for alterations in different octaves.  Alterations in different
octaves have no obvious visual connection to their logical predecessors,
and that's quite similar with clef changes.

-- 
David Kastrup