Timeline for Where did the symbols ♭ and ♯ originate from, and why those?
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| Jul 25, 2016 at 11:37 | comment | added | user1803551 | @Tim I don't understand, it's written there. "Soft" and "hard" are the are the names of the B letters, or at least the way by which they were referred. We are given more than a clue. The transfer of # and b to other notes is explained in the rest of the pages, you didn't ask about it, you asked only about the origin of the signs. Read the whole Hexachord page. About the "citation needed", it's just someone who didn't know/bother to add the source, not that the information is doubtful. This mostly repeats the explanation in the Hexachord page anyway. | |
| Jul 25, 2016 at 7:04 | comment | added | Tim | Thanks. This seems to address the note B/Bb/H. Why 'soft or hard'? We are given no clues. It doesn't appear to explain the transfer of # and b to the other notes, either. And there seems to be a lot of supposition - 'citation needed'. | |
| Jul 24, 2016 at 23:23 | history | answered | user1803551 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |