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Re: Idle curiousity about ancient Lily-lore
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Keith OHara |
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Re: Idle curiousity about ancient Lily-lore |
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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:30:36 +0000 (UTC) |
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Jim Long <lilypond <at> umpquanet.com> writes:
> Just curious, how did the absolute notation system come about?
It is very similar to Helmholtz notation, from his book of 1863
"On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music"
The difference being that Hermann von Helmholtz used capital letters C
where LilyPond uses c, and then lower primes C, where LilyPond uses c,,
That book implies that the notation was already common.