Can anyone shed light on these two questions:
My community band is preparing a piece for our next concert and it has two odd (to me at least) features. One is the use of a double B flat -- why write a double flat or double sharp? Why not just use the note it represents, eg. An A for the B bb? Secondly, it has two ascending and descending chromatic scale passages -- only about 10 measures apart in the same key. One passage uses flats and the other uses sharps, but all notes are the same: chromatic scales starting and ending on the same note. Why not write them the same?
My community band is preparing a piece for our next concert and it has two odd (to me at least) features. One is the use of a double B flat -- why write a double flat or double sharp? Why not just use the note it represents, eg. An A for the B bb? Secondly, it has two ascending and descending chromatic scale passages -- only about 10 measures apart in the same key. One passage uses flats and the other uses sharps, but all notes are the same: chromatic scales starting and ending on the same note. Why not write them the same?
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