On Feb 8, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Phil Daley wrote:
At 2/8/2006 01:03 PM, Michael Cook wrote:
>See above. The French never use the aglo-saxon letter names, so they
>only teach one system.
If I understand what you just said, music students do not learn
every-good-boy-does-fine and all-cows-eat-grass? (Well, the French
equivalents).
This seems so unbelievable to me.
As much as the Isam bombings recently.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that last statement.
Is it really as unbelievable to you that other languages have different
names for the notes, as that some fanatics are willing to kill in the
name of their religion?
You DO know that not all languages, and not even all Western languages,
use the same alphabet as English, don't you? And some cultures don't
even use a 12-semitone chromatic scale?
Christopher
(Still, I suppose to some movable do versus fixed do IS akin to a
religion.)
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