Re: Re: [Harp-L] Why is C not named A?

[Garry Hodgson <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Reading about the history of how scales were constructed in former
> centuries can be pretty interesting. 

can anyone recommend any good (perferably online) resources for this?

> Much of what we routinely accept is historical accident. Every language
> has idiomatic expressions - utterances that are commonly understood but
> which make no logical sense if deconstructed. 

i find much what i see in musical notation to be a nightmare of 
kludges and backwards compatibility tweaks.  this kind of thing
is a common thing in software and programming languages.  music
has just had several more centuries of accumulated cruft.

time for a reboot.

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Garry Hodgson, Senior Software Geek, AT&T CSO

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