Re: why does lily prints both a natural and sharp sign?

[Nicholas Moe]

On p. 125 of my Gardner Read (1964), it says:
"To cancel the double flat and restore the original single flat, it
was formerly required—as cited in the rules on page 123—to write a
natural sign plus the single flat. Today the tendency is to use merely
the single flat-sign without the natural. It may be less academic, but
its meaning is perfectly clear, and it is simpler to write."

Cheers,

Nick

2011/6/11 Marc Mouries <address@hidden>:
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> 2011/6/11 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>
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>> > I've looked at Ted Ross, Kurt Stone, Gardner Read and Elaine Gould and
>> > can't
>> > find any explicit mention of this.
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>> AFAIK this was a common practice in XIXth century engraving (a period
>> that LilyPond tries to mimic), but it is considered now obsolete, at
>> least by some people
>> (http://icking-music-archive.org/lists/sottisier/sottieng.pdf page 6).
>>
>> HTH,
>> Janek
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> thanks for the link that's really interesting. I know that Lilypond's goal
> is to produce score similar to manual hand-graved scores but should lilypond
> try to mimic obsolete XIXth century engraving rules?
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> Would it be useful to the lilypond community to generate a lilypond version
> of the excerpt in the referenced document "Essay on the true art of music
> engraving"?
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