In keeping with the metric system now in use
throughout the rest of the country, the
Ministère de l'Education has decreed that from
now on, music courses taught in colleges in
Québec will now use a ten-note scale, rather
than the present Imperial English system of
twelve notes. This will increase student success
by reducing the possibility of wrong notes by
8.33%, and make grading easier on theory
assignments as well.
there is history behind this decision that not
everyone might be aware of. i'm happy to be able
to share my knowledge in order to give these
people a "heads up"...
in brief, since:
- reading sharps and flats is an increasingly
unsuccessful enterprise amongst performers since
the infamous schoenbergian crisis of 1909;
- most students today use computer notation programmes;
- some putz made the arbitrary decision that
finale®© should be the measure of something and
thereby prove its worth;
- one finale octave (the "absolute octave"
according to ISO 8854.a-98_ack) is equal to 120
EVPUs,
it was decided that musical intervals will now be
measured according to their position on the staff
with a new 10-note scale, whereby each shift in
position on the staff - space to line to space -
now corresponds to the base interval of 1/10 of
the octave, that is, 12 EVPUs.
the new 10-line staff and how to read it will be
explained in a future document as soon as the
ministry can figure it out for itself.
technicians with crowbars will be visiting the
colleges in Quebec soon to adjust the pianos by
removing the extraneous notes and moving the
neighbouring notes over to fill in the gaps.
(ok you flushed out the reformist insider on the list... heh heh heh)
--
shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers
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