There’s a triple sharp in Alkan, “Etudes in all the minor keys”, Op 39 No 10. The F triple sharp is perfectly logical notation for a grace note on an E sharp 7 chord
There are a few triple flats in Nikolai Roslavets’s first Piano Sonata, including a cautionary one(!). I have no idea why the Russian publisher "beamed " the double and triple flats together, though.
But having overdosed on the triple flats, the publisher “forgot” that the last chord in the right hand was supposed to be Cbb Ebb Gb, not C major
Good old Alkan… poor man deserves much more attention than he gets. Some of his stuff is utterly incredible. (Fiendishly difficult too.) There’s a nice recording of Olivier Latry playing some of his pedal piano works on his original Erard… Very intense.
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for your response.
Your memory serves you very well. The option is indeed in the transpose area. However, in the event of an overload of double sharps and double flats, I would simply transpose up a tone and back down again with the option to not use doubles. It made life much easier. I would be very happy to have this facility on Dorico. However, an interesting point to note is that Sibelius seemed much less frequent in using doubles than Dorico appears to be.
The option to simply switch them off altogether would be heavenly!!!
I’ll talk to Michael, the developer who has done most of the work on transposition, what he thinks about the feasibility of adding such an option to Dorico’s own Transpose dialog in the future.
