How the Dutch do it

[Danno]

So H stood for 'Hell'?

[Barf]

So H stood for 'Hell'?

'Huns'?

[karacha]

So H stood for 'Hell'?

I believe this is actually because long time ago there was a distinction between the "soft", "rounded" B (which Germans called B; this is the same as Bb) and the sharp, high, (German: hoch B), resulting in the name "H."

I am a theorist and a composer, so if there are some musicologists around, feel free to correct me.

[Viv Savage]

Pennsylvania Dutch refers to people of German heritage. "The Dutch are generally regarded as one of several Germanic peoples. The German, Deutsch, the archaic Dutch, Deitsch, and the modern Dutch, Duits, each mean 'German' yet are all cognates of the English, 'Dutch'. Hostetler (1993) gives the origin of 'Dutch' as a "folk-rendering" of 'Deitsch'."

That could pretty much be true. Personally I never understood how come I live in a country known by two names (Netherlands and Holland), and I am Dutch... France speaks French and the people are French, Germany has German and Germans. How come that low land is different? How many times English speakers mistake my Dutch for Deutsch...

And Bach putting his name in music; way cool! Never knew that. Anyone knows which piece exactly?

[Nielzie]

Pennsylvania Dutch refers to people of German heritage. "The Dutch are generally regarded as one of several Germanic peoples. The German, Deutsch, the archaic Dutch, Deitsch, and the modern Dutch, Duits, each mean 'German' yet are all cognates of the English, 'Dutch'. Hostetler (1993) gives the origin of 'Dutch' as a "folk-rendering" of 'Deitsch'."

That could pretty much be true. Personally I never understood how come I live in a country known by two names (Netherlands and Holland), and I am Dutch... France speaks French and the people are French, Germany has German and Germans. How come that low land is different? How many times English speakers mistake my Dutch for Deutsch...

And Bach putting his name in music; way cool! Never knew that. Anyone knows which piece exactly?

Ahhhh that explains why the best softsynths are from both German (Native Instruments, u-he, Tone2) AND Dutch (FabFilter, LennarDigital) developers. It's all in the blood..

[neueliteratur]

And Bach putting his name in music; way cool! Never knew that. Anyone knows which piece exactly?

"The Art of Fugue

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2. Contrapunctus II: Simple monothematic 4-voice fugues on main theme, accompanied by a 'French' style dotted rhythm motif. The 14 iterations of the subject may stand for the composer's surname (B + A + C + H = 14)

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19. Fuga a 3 Soggetti (Contrapunctus XIV): 4-voice triple, possibly quadruple, fugue, the third subject of which is based on the BACH motif, B♭ - A - C - B♮ ('H' in German letter notation)." Source: Wikipedia

[VicDiesel]

I don't think it goes like this:

Cis, Dis, Eis, Gis, Ais, Bis...
Ces, Des, Ees, Fes, Aes, Bes...

With the exception of Ees => Es and Aes => As, you were right.

Double sharps are Cisis &c and double flats are Beses &c.

Victor.