Timeline for How did western music label and calibrate around C Major as having no sharps/flats rather than A Major?
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| Jun 25, 2023 at 3:49 | comment | added | ttw | Thanks for the link. | |
| Jun 24, 2023 at 15:31 | comment | added | phoog | Because of this, there were eight pitches per octave in Guido's system, not seven:nthe beginnings of chromaticism. Also, as outlined in Athanasius's excellent and comprehensive answer to the duplicate question, A was the lowest note of the scale well before Guido; by Guido's time they had added one below it, called Gamma (Gamma Ut, in fact, giving rise to the word "gamut"). | |
| Jun 24, 2023 at 15:27 | comment | added | phoog | None of the hexachords contains a tritone. Rather, the soft hexachord contains a different B from the one in the hard hexachord. The B in the soft hexachord, round or soft B, is a half step above A; the B in the hard hexachord, square or hard B, is a whole step above. All three hexachords have the same intervals (tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone). Thus "often flattened in practice" is misleading: soft B was not only flat by design but the source of the flat symbol. This distinction gave us much terminology in many languages (bémol in French, B, H, Dur, and Moll in German). | |
| Jun 24, 2023 at 12:46 | history | answered | ttw | CC BY-SA 4.0 |