What conventions are used with accidentals and tied notes?

1. How do you notate in tied notes?
2. What does it mean when notes are tied together?
3. Does an accidental carry through a tie?
4. When a note is tied across the bar line it's accidental is Cancelled?

How do you notate in tied notes?

As already mentioned, tied notes add the value of the second note to the first note. For example, 2 quarter notes that are tied together will be held for 2 beats. Or, a half note and an eighth note tied together will be held for 2 1/2 beats.

What does it mean when notes are tied together?

In music notation, a tie is a curved line connecting the heads of two notes of the same pitch, indicating that they are to be played as a single note with a duration equal to the sum of the individual notes' values. ... Ties are normally employed to join the time-value of two notes of identical pitch.

Does an accidental carry through a tie?

Once a barline is passed, the effect of the accidental ends, except when a note affected by an accidental is tied to the same note across a barline. Subsequent notes at the same staff position in the second or later bars are not affected by the accidental carried through with the tied note.

When a note is tied across the bar line it's accidental is Cancelled?

#3 - Rules for Naming Tied Notes with Accidentals: the note is only named when it is played (depressed). the accidental applies only to the note on the line or in the space in which it appears. the accidental is cancelled by the bar line or by another accidental.