Timeline for Why did we never simplify key signatures?
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| Nov 24, 2019 at 23:55 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | That is generally a good argument for “why change isn't done”, however in case of signatures it doesn't really carry much weight. It would be feasible to have a different notation and teach that to beginners. Then later, just memorising a translation table for what the old notation means in terms of the one the student is already familiar with would be easy enough (it's literally just discrete replacements in an “alphabet” of ~10 symbols). In comparison, switching between e.g. notation and guitar-tabulature is highly nontrivial, still many teachers will teach both. | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 12:59 | history | answered | g.kertesz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |