[MEI-L] What is a cautionary accidental?

[Richard Freedman]

For the Renaissance tradition of the cautionary accidental, I would suggest
looking at the work of Don Harran:

Harrán, Don, (Author). "New evidence for musica ficta: the cautionary
sign." *Journal Of The American Musicological Society* 29, no. 1 (Spring
1976): 77-98.

Richa


Richarichard

If you

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Eleanor Selfridge-Field <
esfield at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
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> “Behind Bars” does not give the whole story.  The musica ficta track
> (Renaissance and early baroque music) involves providing (usually in
> parentheses above the affected note) an alteration that may be introduced
> by a performer to respect the movement within a particular hexachord.  It
> is not a hard-wired part of the score or the encoding, but of course it is
> unavailable to the performer unless it is indicated in some way.  It is not
> cautionary; it is optional.
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> The later-music track usually uses cautionary accidents to warn the
> performer of something that is ingrained in the score might be missed in
> the visual environment, especially return to the key indicated in th4
> signature after a modulation or an alteration that carries over a
> page-turn.
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> At the encoding level, no special provision is required for the second.
> The accommodation is in the rendering, which is up to the editor.
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> Regards to all,
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> Eleanor
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> Eleanor Selfridge-Field
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> *From:* mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] *On Behalf Of
> *Erik Ronström
> *Sent:* Monday, April 04, 2016 5:54 AM
> *To:* Music Encoding Initiative <mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de>
> *Subject:* Re: [MEI-L] What is a cautionary accidental?
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> Quoting ”Behind Bars” :
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> ”An accidental that is repeated later in a bar, even though it is not
> strictly necessary, is called a ’cautionary’ (or ’reminder’ or ’courtesy’)
> accidental. Cautionary accidentals confirm the pitch of a note that might
> otherwise be questioned […] Atonal and highly chromatic idioms should
> include cautionary accidentals to assist accurate reading.”
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> Erik
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> 4 apr 2016 kl. 14:40 skrev Anna Plaksin <annplaksin at gmx.net>:
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> Dear list,
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> while I was looking for a way to deal with musica ficta signs, I came
> across the @func attribute. Whereas the definition of an editorial
> accidental is clear to me, I’m wondering how a cautionary accidental can be
> understood. I didn’t find any further explanations for this particular
> attribute.
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> Or I try it the other way round: Does someone know a way to encode musica
> ficta accidentals? How could they be distinguished from other explicit
> accidentals without declaring them as editorial – because they are written
> in the source.
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> Thanks in advance for sharing your wisdom with me. :-)
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> Best wishes,
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> Anna
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Richard Freedman
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