Inflections and alterations
An inflection is a microtonal accidental. Using this term allows the term accidental to refer exclusively to sharps, flats and naturals. Accidentals and inflections are referred to collectively as alterations. This terminology greatly facilitates discussions of microtonal scores.
Examples:
| Accidentals | Inflections | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrows | |||
| Sharp | Flat | Up | Down |
| ♯ | ♭ | ^ | v |
| Accidentals | Inflections | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arrows | Slashes | ||||
| Sharp | Flat | Up | Down | Lift | Drop |
| ♯ | ♭ | ^ | v | / | \ |
| Accidentals | Inflections | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime 5 | Prime 7 | Prime 11 | ||||||
| color notation | Sharp | Flat | Yo | Gu | Zo | Ru | iLo | Lu |
| ♯ | ♭ | y | g | z | r | 1o | 1u | |
| FJS notation | ♯ | ♭ | 5 | /5 | 7 | /7 | 11 | /11 |
| Prime-factor Sagittal | ♯ | ♭ | ||||||
These usages of the terms accidental, inflection and alteration were coined by Kite Giedraitis.
TO DO: complete the Sagittal entries