Re:force accidentals

[Mehmet Okonsar]

I beg your pardon if I did not express myself as well as a native English
speaking person.

The function is very useful and it must be uploaded at the code snippets.
The only point is, the accidentals should not repeat only if the note
preceding the current one is the same (note name and octave).
Otherwise every note, even the very first note of the music, should have a
natural or an accidental. That last condition works with the current
function.

Best Regards,
Mehmet Okonsar, pianist-composer
www.okonsar.com

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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:05:03 -0500
From: "Stephen" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: force accidentals
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Nicoas,

Mehmet meant to say "Can the function be modified to not put an accidental
or natural on notes repeated in the same measure."

Put it another way and the question is: "Can we make the accidental engraver
treat the natural exactly the way it treats the sharp and flat?"

In Atonal music, there is not key signature. Normally, if there are not
accidentals in the key signature, that means the key is either C Major or a
minor. So how do we indicate on paper that there is no key signature?
Simple. Put the natural on the same footing as the sharp and flat, treat
each note as if it has an equal chance of being a natural, sharp, or flat.

Accidentals are only normally put on a note the first time they occur in a
measure, so we want the natural to be treated that way too. Instead of
putting an accidental on every note, we want notes repeated in the same
measure to be absent an accidental.

Somewhere in the function forceAlterations you might have the line:

(eqv? (ly:music-property m 'measureLength) 0)

checking to see whether the present note is the first occurance of that note
(within the same octave, as Mehmet stated) since the measure began. Doing it
that way would be cumbersome and might make the function more complicated
than it would have to be, but I am indicating what the function should do to
engrave Atonal music properly. Shoenberg did note approve to the term
'Atonal'. However, this is how his music was originally published in the
Universal Edition engravings. The proper term is 'Music without a Key
Signature', but that is not as catchy as 'Atonal'.

So how would you enforce the idea that the music has no key signature when
absence of accidentals in the key signature indicates C major? The answer is
treating the natural the same as the other two accidentals.

This could be written into the accidental engraver as a standard style:

#(set-accidental-style 'atonal)

Stephen





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