theory

[Richard Brekne]

I must aggree  Tom... what it boils down to is this. Keys are keys... but notes are notes... To call a key a note is completely misguided, as well as it is to call a note a key. Moot and Hoof !!

I see no point whatsoever in attaching so blantant a prejudice to these non-white members of our keyfamily as to simply out of hand call them sharps or flats. They are not neccessarrily either... and certainly not both.

Why cant we just call them blacks.... or perhaps .... ebonies... yes ebonies... this would even be politically correct.

JMV

Tom Cole wrote:

> Thanks, Dave, for your definitive explanation of interval nomenclature.
> Having been blessed/burdened with musical training myself, I am equally
> concerned with the proper spelling of both musical intervals and words.
> The convention of the use of the word "sharp", I believe, only applies
> to the physical key and to dogmatically call the black notes of
> intervals "sharps", irrespective of their relationships to other notes,
> is to ignore musical convention and I don't think we want to knowingly
> do that.
>
> I don't expect that everyone on this list has a music education and this
> mistake will be made, of course. But I'm not sure that this point has
> been made before and I'm glad that you did.
>
> Tom Cole
>

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no