> I think the question more applicable, would be what do they do in
> countries having totally different alphabets?  That would be countries
> such as Greece, Russia, China, Japan, and Arabic countries.

I wondered about that too.  If you only have the cyrllic alphabet, how do
you write "C7"?  But one never hears about Russian composers having this
problem.

Sensing that we were lacking factual information, I took the liberty of
searching.

Summary: Nothing I found indicated any divergent notation for non-roman
alphabets, except in cases where the scales are entirely different.  For
those, chord names would be the least of the issues.

For the curious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_names_and_symbols_(popular_music)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(music)#Notation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_notation#Notation_in_various_countries
http://en.pons.eu/translate/english-rsoussian/chord+symbol+notation

        Tom Breton (Tehom)



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