Timeline for Why are there twelve notes in an octave?
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| Sep 26 at 20:47 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | This doesn't really explain why the note name C corresponds to the note previously assigned to Ut. Especially since the apparent purpose of solfege is to go through the notes "in order", it would intuitively still make more sense to start at "A". | |
| Oct 8, 2019 at 3:59 | comment | added | phoog | In fact, only ut through la come directly from the hymn, which ranges only from C to A, but that was fine since the system that used these syllables comprised overlapping six-note scales called hexachords; these syllables were used alongside the letter names of the seven-note scale that seems to have preceded them. Ut was applied to F, C, or G. Si was added later when the hexachord system broke down and the syllables were applied to the seven-note scale. The major scale did not really exist at that time, however, since there were only four authentic modes and their plagal counterparts. | |
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| Apr 30, 2011 at 11:08 | history | answered | ogerard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |