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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 13 Jan 1996.
Talk-Line: Music staffs

Talk-Line: Music staffs

Rosemary Lyndall Wemm <ros...@haywire.DIALix.COM> writes:

>On 10 Jan 1996, Bob Allison wrote:
>>    For some time I have been using this as a sig in music newsgroups.  I 
>> is the result of many diddlings.
>>                      |\                         __3__              |
>>____|) ______________|\\ ________| ____________' _| _` __| ________| __| _____
>>____| ___3_|________@'_\| _|_____| ________|___| _| _| __| |_,@ ___| __| __|__
>>___/|. __-_|___| _______| _|_____| __,@ ___|__@'_@'_@'___| |_| ___@'___| __|__
>>__( ( ) _4_|___| ______@'__|____O'___| ____|____________@'_|_| _______@'___|__
>>___`|'_____|___| __________|_________| ____|_______________|_| ____________|__
>>   (|         O'                     |                            bob...@wwa.com
>As a trained musician I would like to suggest that you contact your local
>music practitioner for a checkup.  You appear to be due for your
>next "music refresher course".  
>The example you give does not conform to the standards set out in the
>latest International College of Music "Guide to Correct Musical
>Composition and Note Making".  

    [snip]

>Thirdly, the piece is written in A minor and you have failed to include a 
>G# in the key signature.

WHAT! Putting a g# in the key signature! Surely the "Guide" mentions that 
raised sevenths in minor keys are only put in as accidentals!

Owen.

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From: Owen O'Byrne <owe...@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Talk-Line: Music staffs
Date: 1996/01/13
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organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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