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The notation in this piece is inconsistent and ambiguous. One can only guess what the composer intended. One heuristic is to assume that an accidental only applies for a 'short' time. Applying this the second line I'd assume the E-flat didn't apply to the last E on that line, and if it did I'd expect to see the flat repeated.
The D's on the third line are almost certainly all intended to be D-sharps, but there's no way to be absolutely sure.

One way of entering an unmeasured piece in notation software is to split it into measures and then hide the bar-lines and time changes. It looks like this was done in this case. If the end of line three had been entered as two measures of 4/4 then that would explain the sharp repeated on the D of the sixteenth notes (and the bad spacing between the notes).

In general there are four ways of writing accidentals in an unmeasured piece:

  • an accidental applies only to the note it precedes
  • an applies only to the note it precedes and immediately repeated notes of the same pitch
  • an accidental applies to the note it precedes and other notes of the same pitch that are beamed together with it.
  • an accidental applies until cancelled

But it needs to be explicitly stated which system is being used.

The notation in this piece is inconsistent and ambiguous. One can only guess what the composer intended. One heuristic is to assume that an accidental only applies for a 'short' time. Applying this the second line I'd assume the E-flat didn't apply to the last E on that line, and if it did I'd expect to see the flat repeated.
The D's on the third line are almost certainly all intended to be D-sharps, but there's no way to be absolutely sure.

In general there are four ways of writing accidentals in an unmeasured piece:

  • an accidental applies only to the note it precedes
  • an applies only to the note it precedes and immediately repeated notes of the same pitch
  • an accidental applies to the note it precedes and other notes of the same pitch that are beamed together with it.
  • an accidental applies until cancelled

But it needs to be explicitly stated which system is being used.

The notation in this piece is inconsistent and ambiguous. One can only guess what the composer intended. One heuristic is to assume that an accidental only applies for a 'short' time. Applying this the second line I'd assume the E-flat didn't apply to the last E on that line, and if it did I'd expect to see the flat repeated.
The D's on the third line are almost certainly all intended to be D-sharps, but there's no way to be absolutely sure.

One way of entering an unmeasured piece in notation software is to split it into measures and then hide the bar-lines and time changes. It looks like this was done in this case. If the end of line three had been entered as two measures of 4/4 then that would explain the sharp repeated on the D of the sixteenth notes (and the bad spacing between the notes).

In general there are four ways of writing accidentals in an unmeasured piece:

  • an accidental applies only to the note it precedes
  • an applies only to the note it precedes and immediately repeated notes of the same pitch
  • an accidental applies to the note it precedes and other notes of the same pitch that are beamed together with it.
  • an accidental applies until cancelled

But it needs to be explicitly stated which system is being used.

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PiedPiper
  • 23.6k
  • 2
  • 58
  • 105

The notation in this piece is inconsistent and ambiguous. One can only guess what the composer intended. One heuristic is to assume that an accidental only applies for a 'short' time. Applying this the second line I'd assume the E-flat didn't apply to the last E on that line, and if it did I'd expect to see the flat repeated.
The D's on the third line are almost certainly all intended to be D-sharps, but there's no way to be absolutely sure.

In general there are four ways of writing accidentals in an unmeasured piece:

  • an accidental applies only to the note it precedes
  • an applies only to the note it precedes and immediately repeated notes of the same pitch
  • an accidental applies to the note it precedes and other notes of the same pitch that are beamed together with it.
  • an accidental applies until cancelled

But it needs to be explicitly stated which system is being used.