Re: [tuning] Digest Number 3794

hi Monz!
didn't schoenberg at a certain point merely notate accidentals, if we can call them that, by alternating sharps and flats on sucessive pages?

>Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:35:18 -0000
> From: "monz" <monz@tonalsoft.com>
>Subject: Schoenberg, serialism, 12-edo (was: What I Was...)
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>Hi Mark,
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>--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <mark@e...> wrote:
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Hi Kraig,

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:

> hi Monz!
> didn't schoenberg at a certain point merely notate
> accidentals, if we can call them that, by alternating
> sharps and flats on sucessive pages?

I've never studied his scores looking for that specific
characteristic, and i've never read anything like that
before from him or anyone else, so i don't know.

What i do know for sure is that in his book _Style and Idea_,
Schoenberg has one article about notation in which he
specificially says that from that point on he would be
using the "clearest possible" notation -- meaning basically
that he'd be using the most commonly seen notation for
each particular note, and avoiding double-sharps and
double-flats. He also specified that he wouldn't be
placing a natural symbol in front of the naturals unless
absolutely necessary to avoid confusion.

-monz
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