different key signatures

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bigm27
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Post by bigm27 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:50 pm

How do you make other key signatures than the ones they give you?


jayendra
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Post by jayendra » Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:26 am

maybe this?


Open key/Atonal
Some transposing scores that are apparently in C major have no key signatures in the transposing instruments either. The composer has omitted all key signatures because the key changes too often, the music is in a scale or mode other than major or minor (the only two scales for which key signatures are designed to be used), or the music has no obvious tonal enter. To use this notation, choose Open key/Atonal at the top right of the Create> Key Signature dialog. You can switch back to music with key signatures later in the score by creating a normal key signature (e.g. C major). A classic case of this is Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, which is mostly atonal but partly in keys – mostly the transposing instruments don’t have key signatures, but sometimes they do. If your score uses an Open key/Atonal key signature, you will need to show accidentals where appropriate. There are a number of different approaches to how accidentals should appear: * At the first occurrence of a sharpened or flattened note in a bar, but not at subsequent repetitions of that pitch within the same bar: this is what Sibelius does by default * At every sharpened or flattened note, wherever it appears: use Plug-ins> Accidentals> Add Accidentals to All Sharp and Flat Notes to achieve this * On every note, including naturals: use Plug-ins> Accidentals> Add Accidentals to All Notes.

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