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Let's play Bach! 8~D

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BACH_motif: Always fun.

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The H note was created by Bach so that he can spell his name ? :wink:
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H is B flat, not the other way around.
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Lyberta wrote:H is B flat, not the other way around.
I'm not so sure about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_note#History_of_note_names wrote:The remaining five notes of the chromatic scale (the black keys on a piano keyboard) were added gradually; the first being B♭, since B was flattened in certain modes to avoid the dissonant tritone interval. This change was not always shown in notation, but when written, B♭ (B-flat) was written as a Latin, round "b", and B♮ (B-natural) a Gothic script (known as Blackletter) or "hard-edged" b. These evolved into the modern flat (♭) and natural (♮) symbols respectively. The sharp symbol arose from a barred b, called the "cancelled b".

In parts of Europe, including Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Norway, Denmark, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Finland and Iceland (and Sweden before about 1990s), the Gothic b transformed into the letter H (possibly for hart, German for hard, or just because the Gothic b resembled an H). Therefore, in German music notation, H is used instead of B♮ (B-natural), and B instead of B♭ (B-flat).
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What an absolute mess.
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That's why God created the piano roll and the numeric MIDI notes.

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