[kln2-devel] Do-Re-Mi

[Marek W. <Mar...@fu...>]

Hi e-body,

Three people independently requested the same feature, and
Fernando even declared he wants to look at this. Great. :)

There are some questions about accidentals, though. Please
look below at what I sent to Fernando. Any comments?

~Marek

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 javierpulido@canada... wrote:
>  I think that we have to keep A B C notation and maybe
> add a french one Do-Re-Mi later. What do you think?.

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Silhusk wrote:
> in italian notes are usually named
> Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si instead of
> C  D  E  F  G   A  B
> could be possible to have them also translated? (on namebuttons)

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Marek Wieckowski wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Fernando Cuenca wrote:
> > However, my musical training has always been with note names (do, re,
> > mi, ...) instead of letters,
> ...
> > I can try to implement that feature.
>
> Great!
...
> My suggestion would be adding it as a third option for
> German/English notation (I guess "French notation" is an
> adequate name for do-re-mi stuff). But I warn you that this
> would be quite some work because of two reasons:
> 1. this would require changing current toggle-style into
>  multiple choice - like for speed-goal levels
>  (Prentice/Jman/Wizard)
> 2. this would change the way notes are named from char to, e.g.
>  QString.
> Plus there would be different way how to recognize that an user
> answered right (she can't press "do" key on the kbd, can she? first
> letter: D for do, R for re etc.? what about sol-si?).
>
>
>
> For future: how do you call notes with accidentals (sharp/cross
> "#" or flat/bemol "b")? These will be needed e.g. for the guitar
> fretboard and key signature/scale recognition. How do you call
> these? E.g. what is C#? "Do sharp"? "Do with a cross"? Is it
> clear what "Do #" might mean? When you see a song book for
> guitar players (with chords' names above lyrics/text) how are
> chords like "C sharp major" called? Or, for example, what is the
> name of Chopin's Prelude opus 45? Or Shostakovitch's Violin
> Concerto No.2 Op. 129?
>
> In Poland we call C sharp "C#" or "cis". I don't really know how
> to extend "do-re-mi" system to accidented notes. Maybe this
> should be kept only for preliminary lessons, without
> accidentals, and not extended for features planned in future?