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Idle curiousity about ancient Lily-lore


From: Jim Long
Subject: Idle curiousity about ancient Lily-lore
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 18:40:10 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Just curious, how did the absolute notation system come about?

My main observations are that it is piano-centric, with 
{ c d e f g a b c' } being an intuitive sequence, while { a b c d
e f g a' } is less logical.   Mmm, well, maybe that's not
piano-centric, that's just music theory, C is the only (major)
scale without sharps or flats.  So maybe that question is its own
answer, one would hope that a C scale could be represented
elegantly, without a ' or , appearing or dis-appearing somewhere
in the middle of the octave.

>From the Schroedinger's Cat school of thought, what are some of
the input notation proposals that were considered and rejected?

Why is "a" A 220, and not A 440?

Not being critical, just wondering my leopards have spots and
elephants have trunks, instead of vice versa.

Archive links to ancient discussions are acceptable.

Thanks,

Jim



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