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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 2004/07

From: Jennifer I.Paull <info@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Americas, and the rest of the world!!!
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 07:18:34 -0400

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On Friday, July 2, 2004, at 12:58 pm, Sameer Alabdullah wrote:

> Dear Jennifer and all,

Hello Sameer,
>
> I NEVER studied music (unfortunately) but was taught to play since the =
=20
> age of 5. And I was taught the Do, Re, Mi , Fa , Sol La Ce Do and the =
=20
> Diez and Bemol (sharp and flat) system(what is it French or what??)

Latin. (see the article, the URL of which I posted)

Di=E8se and b=E9mol are French for sharp and flat.

> Anyways, I had to learn the C D E F G A B system when i picked up =20=

> the oboe 4 years ago. My first question was "why the heck does it =20
> start with C? why not A as that would make more sense??".

Exactly. That's why I always use the Latin system and the
American note value system as they make more sense. The
only fault with the note value system is that a "whole" note is not
the longest note value. In English we call it a semi-breve.
Therefore there is a breve. People who specialise in ancient
music are very familiar with it. It is called a "double whole note" in
the American system which is a contradiction in the thought
process. :-)

Mind you, as the word "tonality" comes from "tone" (as in semi
and quarter tone), why don;'t they cal it "stepality" in the States? =20
:-))

> I still get confused when my teacher tells me to play the note C!! Is =
=20
> it C or Si we're talking about??

He's talking about letter C. It is for this reason that when the movable
do - the tonic sol-fa system was invented during the 19th C, the horror
of "ti" was substituted for "si" in Britain. I'm sure Julie Andrews was
delighted. The French have never understood this. "Do" to a French
man doesn't mean home base - it means C.

E major is therefore;

Mi, Fa, Sol,La, Si, Do, R=E9, Mi

> I haven't gotton used to the English quavers and minims system yet and =
=20
> find halves, quarters and wholes making more sense to me.

Indeed they do.
>
> I asked a British friend "how much do you weigh? she said "12 stone." =
=20
> And I thought it i was a happy man after having figured out the =20
> difference between pounds and kilos!!! ;0

Hopeless, isn't it? What I don't understand is that Britain has been =20
metric
for many years now, but they still use miles instead of kilometres.

> Sameer Al-Abdullah
>
>

Only in German can you spell out your name BACH on a piano. We call B =20=

natural
or Si b=E9carre what the Germans call "H" - the Dutch too, I believe - =20=

Denmark,
Sweden...???

What a mess! :-))

Jennifer

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Jennifer I. Paull, Ph.D.
President
Amoris International
http://www.amoris.com
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