[MEI-L] "Cancelling" key signatures

Laurent Pugin laurent at music.mcgill.ca
Fri Sep 5 08:40:39 CEST 2014


> It’s really only the absence of any key signature (Cmaj/Amin) where an
> explicit change with naturals would be needed to clarify that the key
> signature has changed.

In that case I think what you want to encode is the key change (and
not the key signature). What about a /scoreDef with a @key.mode and
@key.pname ?

Laurent

>
> -Andrew
>
> On Sep 4, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Laurent Pugin <lxpugin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> I would expect this to be done at the rendering. For example, naturals would
> be added when changing from 4s to 1s. But maybe I am overlooking something.
>
> In any case, I am not sure your regexp would do the job since you would
> probably need to have both s or f together with n. For example 3n1s for the
> aforementioned case.
>
> Laurent
>
> On Sep 4, 2014 10:29 PM, "Andrew Hankinson" <andrew.hankinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The data.KEYSIGNATURE regex specifies the following valid values:
>> "mixed|0|[1-7][f|s]”.
>>
>> However, naturals may also appear in a key signature to clarify cancelling
>> a key signature; for example, if you were to go from Gmaj to Cmaj, you may
>> wish to write a natural in the key signature to indicate the new key.
>>
>> Perhaps the regex should be amended to: "mixed|0|[1-7][f|s|n]”?
>>
>> Or is there another suggestion?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Andrew
>>
>>
>>
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