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Tony Deff
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It is a characteristic of my star-sign that I question logic that I do not understand. Why is the 8vb (ottava bassa) and 15mb (quindicesima bassa) not displayed as 7 and 14, or at least consistently as 8 and 16 ? C'est une caractéristique de mon signe astrologique que je questionne une logique que je ne comprends pas. Pourquoi les 8vb (ottava bassa) et 15mb (quindicesima bassa) ne s'affichent-ils pas comme 7 et 14 (ou au moins systématiquement comme 8 et 16) ?
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Anglophone, HA 64 Win.10, amateur composer. La musique classique est ce dont vous attendez toujours qu'elle se transforme en mélodie
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Re: Logic of music notation
« Reply #2 on: Jan 7th, 2022, 10:03am » |
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Thanks dheo, that is a useful link. So, the short answer is yes, the annotation is inconsistent. 15 indicates 15 steps, but 8 does not indicate 8 steps. (And to an electronics engineer, 15mA is a small electrical current; that should get the music "flowing" )
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Re: Logic of music notation
« Reply #3 on: Jan 7th, 2022, 11:01am » |
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on Jan 7th, 2022, 10:03am, Tony Deff wrote:Thanks dheo, that is a useful link. So, the short answer is yes, the annotation is inconsistent. 15 indicates 15 steps, but 8 does not indicate 8 steps. (And to an electronics engineer, 15mA is a small electrical current; that should get the music "flowing" ) |
| The same way "C3-C3" is a "prime" (or "unisson") "C3-D3" a second, and so on. Interval names were defined centuries before zero was in common use. Even today, counting from zero is still uncommon. The naming convention of intervals is "number of steps +1" which results in "C3-c4" being called a 8th, "C3-D4" a 9th ... "C3-C5" a 15th.
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