I don’t have anything manually selected to either show or hide accidentals in the Properties Panel. If you look at measure 318, there is a G# in the left hand. Yet the first new instance in the next measure, after the rests, doesn’t show the accidental, which makes it possibly confusing as to whether it’s a G# (it is) or a G-natural (it isn’t). I have Modernist accidentals in the preferences, but does that then assume that a tied note’s accidentals carry through to subsequent notes in the measure without needing a courtesy accidental? In my Notation Options, I have all the options selected to show cautionary accidentals, never to not have a cautionary accidental displayed. It just seemed odd to not have a courtesy # there. Same with the F# in the right hand and the A# in the last two measures. Thanks.
Hi @dtoub, maybe this is the Option you are searching for? (it seems that the end of the previous tied note’s pitch, that has a # is considered to exist as G# in the same bar, its duration extends in the second bar, so the # is not repeated for the next G: that Notation Option change takes care of this, repeating the #)
Switching between the two options:
Thanks. It’s a tradeoff since if accidentals persist for just a single note (which is like the 2nd Vienna School option), it forces accidentals on all those prior clusters. What is working now is I went to “Common Practice” and that forced the appropriate accidentals. I hadn’t realized that the Modernist approach considered a tied note’s accidental from the prior measure to still “count,” hence my confusion. Thanks!
Would still love for this issue to be addressed if possible (modernist accidentals not being restated after a tied note starting a measure). This just happened in a new score of mine (see below; the issue is in the third staff) and I fortunately caught it visually. I’m back to using Common Practice, which is probably fine, but unless one uses the option for accidentals to persist only for a single note under Modernist (which presents its own issues), a note that is tied and persists into the next measure is treated as if it had not been tied and had already stated its accidental in that measure. I’m not sure that’s going to be clear to most musicians (it would not be clear to me at all). Thanks!
