Re: an "odd" accidental problem...

[David Kastrup]

Torsten Hämmerle <address@hidden> writes:

> B~M wrote
>> It appeared in the "Fantasy Etudes for
>> Viola" written by
>> Lillian Fuchs who was a significant contributor to Viola in the USA.
>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for this background information.
> Lillian Fuchs' expertise is beyond all possible doubt, and I apologize for
> suspecting ignorance. 
> Moreover, her 16 Fantasy Etudes have been published by a renowned company,
> and so this strange orthography may be well-founded.
> It'd be interesting to learn about her motives, but, unfortunately, she
> can't answer anymore.

Enharmonics in violin/viola music can be used for maintaining a
position-dependent correspondence between fingering and notation in
preference over scale and notation in the rare situation where those
differ (usually being able to play/notate a diatonic run aligns those
two objectives pretty well on those instruments).

I don't know the music in question, so I cannot vouch for either.  Just
a suggestion of what might motivate some string composers to choose
particular notation.

-- 
David Kastrup