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Topic: Sharps, Flats, Naturals in Parenthesis? (Read 1729 times)

mekohler

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Sharps, Flats, Naturals in Parenthesis?

on: October 19, 2006, 09:49:03 PM

What is the significance of a natural notation in parenthesis? It may be a dumb question, but I encountered it in Chopin's Op. 28 No. 4. Right now, I'm just pretending/assumings it's a normal natural.

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asyncopated

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Re: Sharps, Flats, Naturals in Parenthesis?

Reply #1 on: October 19, 2006, 10:05:17 PM

Yes it is, the brackets are there either as a reminder or as an editor's note, i.e. it wasn't in the original scores but were added because there was an "obvious" typo. In your case, for chopin's preludes it's probably a reminder.

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kelly_kelly

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Re: Sharps, Flats, Naturals in Parenthesis?

Reply #2 on: October 21, 2006, 02:44:16 AM

To elaborate on the reminder thing: Usually it's used when a sharp/flat/natural that was previously indicated in the measure is easy to forget.

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