Re: Music Composer v4.00

[perrywat@unity.ncsu.edu (Julian P Watson)]

In article <3vf9fa$2nc@nnrp1.primenet.com>,
Clayburn Juniel/Effective Software Solutions <clay1@primenet.com> wrote:

[snip]

>When Music Composer picks a note to display all it has is the note value
>(60 for middle C).  A C sharp is the same as a D flat.  Music composer has
>to decide which to display it as ( assuming we're not in a key where C
>would be sharp or D would be flat).  I have a pair of radio buttons you can
>set to choose for such occasions. But I'd like to know if you are in a
>sharp key would you write notes as flat?  And vice versa.  If not this is
>one less thing Music Composer would have to check for.
> 
>In other words if in the key of D (Sharp right?), then note value 63 would
>always be displayed as D with a sharp symbol and not E with a flat symbol.
>And of course 61 (C sharp) would be shown without any symbol. 

[snip]

Clay,

	For the most part, you are correct - flats *are not* used with 
a key signature in sharps.  There are exceptions, in music theory we 
learn to use the rules and then we learn to break them.  However, for 
what you are attempting ( your program really appeals to this retired 
college music teacher )  it is a safe bet to use the sharp accidental in 
all sharps key signatures and flats in the flat key signatures.  In the 
case of the key of C ( no sharps and no flats ), the accidental used will 
be determined by the chord which is employed below the melody line.

	Hope this will be of some help.

	Perry
  

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