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

[Snaruhn@xxxxxxx]

Hi Isabelle,

thanks for your hint.

You are quite right the matter is rather complicated. I printed all 14 pages
of your given:

             http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory1.htm#middlec

but will only quote a single remarkable sentence of page 1:

"In English-speaking countries and those in Northern Europe
(The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden ect.), a row of notes steadily rising in 
pitch is named sucessively using the first seven letters of the Roman 
alphabet,
i.e. A, B, C, D, E, F, G."  

Ufff, though this corresponds to what I suggested in my other
post but it doesn´t correspond to the facts.

The summary of the text concerning the chapter "Why middle C?"
is exactly what I thought has happened until we have now to wonder
about this or that of the actual notation. A lot of people changed 
something here and something there and often by silly reasons.

Interesting and amusing is also the opening remarking of the website:

"If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and
nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more
meaningful term: organization of sound."

Ahaaah, Harpie would say, then we can also substitute all actual
"musicians" by more meaningful "sound organizators" ? And what
about me, Dad? I didn´t study "music" but "harpiology" only.

Yeah, Harpie, there you have a problem, but I think if you firm under
"harpiologator" your camouflage may be perfect.

The English saying "in for a penny, in for a pound" doesn´t work 
regarding to the subject, but the German version does it: 

"Wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen" In Harpie´s English: 
Who can bend A  also has to overblow B.

Siegfried