From: Mark K. <mk...@co...> - 2003-04-15 16:15:42
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> > > Right. In English (at least in the English I learned), "do", "re", > > "mi" etc refer to notes within a scale: they're only C, D and E if > > you happen to be in C major. > > I learned the same way in elementary school, I think. They've > always been > relative here. eg. for the templates for my tuned windchimes, which are > tuned to themselves but not to any normal standard of pitch, I > called them > "do re mi" and so on. > As I learned also. This thread made me wonder how the folks using the other method would discuss the notes in a C# Minor key? "do sharp"? The sound of "fa flat" falls flat on my tongue... ;-) (Rhetorical - no reply necessary) |