Re: Suggestion to make sharps and flats persistent

[David Nalesnik]

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:20 PM Kieren MacMillan
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Wol,
>
> > how is lilypond supposed to know whether the g and f are supposed to be 
> > sharpened? :-)
>
> \keyed \a \harmonicminor { a g g+ a }
>
> Is it really that difficult to figure out a rational input syntax?
> I could come up with a dozen completely different ones without breaking a 
> sweat.
>

But minor-mode music is often a conglomeration of the "forms" of the
minor scale which makes them of limited separate utility.  Nothing is
in "harmonic minor."  Notating something in minor by J. S. Bach could
be terrifying.

David N