cautionary accidental

The most common place a cautionary accidental is needed is where an inflected pitch appears immediately before a barline and the same pitch class is then repeated immediately after the barline in the same part, now uninflected, such as on the downbeat of measure 41, first violin part, in example 1 below.

Accidentals are symbols that pair with a notes to create new notes. Three common accidentals are: the sharp (♯), the flat (♭) and the natural (♮). The sharp raises pitch up one fret.

How Accidentals Work in Music

• The sharp raises the note by a half step. The flat does the opposite.
• The Natural.
• Accidentals last only until the end of the measure in which they appear.
• Accidentals appearing on a bar, affect every note on that space or line for the remaining of the bar unless cancelled by a natural.

1.4 Accidentals

• The sharp symbol - ♯ - raises a pitch a half step.
• The flat symbol - ♭ - lowers a pitch a half step.
• The double sharp symbol - 𝄪 - raises a pitch two half steps, or a whole step.
• The double flat symbol - 𝄫 - lowers a pitch two half steps, or a whole step.

Courtesy accidentals

1. Click the Simple Entry tool. , and select the note. (You can Ctrl -click to select an individual note).
2. Press the P key. Finale displays a parenthesized accidental next to the note.
3. Press the P key again. Finale removes the parentheses. Press P again to remove the courtesy accidental.

Physical and non-physical. Physical examples of accidents include unintended motor vehicle collisions, tongue biting while eating, electric shock by accidentally touching bare electric wire, drowning, falls, being injured by touching something sharp or hot, or bumping into something while walking.

From left to right: Sharp, double sharp, flat, double flat, natural. An accidental in music is a symbol that indicates the modification of a pitch. A music accidental can turn a pitch sharp, flat, or back to its natural state.

Why Composers Use Accidentals. Composers use accidentals because playing within one set key all the time is boring. Borrowing notes from other keys and modulating from one key to another are musical devices that provide tension and drama within the sonic story of a piece of music.

The Accidental written in the music will only affect the note/notes on that line or in that space up until cancelled by the Bar Line or by another Accidental. A Key Signature Accidental (a sharp or flat in the Key Signature) can be temporarily affected by another Accidental.

Accidents can be classified as head-on collisions, rear-end collisions, or side-impact accidents. Head-on collisions often happen when someone travels the wrong way down a one-way street or an exit ramp, or when they cross the median on a highway.

Try selecting the whole score, then switching to the last Keypad layout, and hitting Enter on the Keypad twice, which will add and then remove manual cautionary accidentals from every note in the score, leaving you with only the accidentals that Sibelius thinks should appear everywhere.

How to input Cautionary accidentals in Sibelius. To input a cautionary bracketed accidental quickly, just select the note and choose the ( ) button on the fifth keypad (F12) layout - Sibelius will fill in the implied accidental for you.