BTW, is there a standard term for
non-accidental notes? You would think it would be
“natural notes” but sometimes natural notes are also
accidental notes.
In a chromatic
scale, what are the accidental notes? They're certainly
NOT notes with a sharp or flat, since you may already be
in a key signature with those notes.
Well, right, that is my point. Accidental notes are
notes that aren’t in the current key (signature). These are
different distinctions:
1. sharp/flat notes & natural notes
2. notes not in the key (accidental notes) &
notes in the key (???)
I don’t know that there's any term that’s the
complement to “accidental notes” (besides writing out “notes in
the key”).