Note ID - & Tunelab

David M. Porritt dporritt@post.cis.smu.edu
Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:23:40 -0500


On 6/23/00 at 9:00 AM Robert Scott wrote:

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>What is more curious to me is how the note designations got started.
>Why did the first musicians to consider the issue call the base of 
>the no-flats, no-sharps minor scale 'A'?  Why wasn't 'A' chosen to
>represent the base of the major scale?  How did the letter 'C' come
>to own this honor?  

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Why is my boot disk drive the C: drive?

dave




David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275



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