dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, but think how much easier it would be for mid-level school music students who would never have to learn those pitches as B# or Fb -- to say nothing of the endless arguments when they are taught such pitch-names and complain about why don't people just write them as C and E if that's what they want to hear.
I would prefer that they be taught that enharmonic equivalence is initially a fudge introduced for the benefit of keyboard players, because of their inability to cope with 17-note octaves, let alone 31 or 53, and subsequently a device exploited by composers from the 18th C onward, to provide striking modulations. The 35 note name system is better than 12, but we really ought to have 53, so as to distinguish major and minor tones -- Ken Moore _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
