On my piano keyboard AHCDEFG
Why is it so that I call that note H instead of B ?:
"B (musical note) B, also known as Si, Ti, or, in most European countries, H"
The way I was thaught B is actually the note A#
B to the H, and H to the B
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- KVRAF
- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
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- 37262 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from Scottish Borders
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- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
Luckily Word spell checker came along somewhere along the road 
I was figureing out the Airwolf theme, and got me thinking about the difference in notation:
A - DEGA - CHGA - CHGA - G H E - D C D H G A
A - DEGA - CBGA - CBGA - G B E - D C D B G A
I was figureing out the Airwolf theme, and got me thinking about the difference in notation:
A - DEGA - CHGA - CHGA - G H E - D C D H G A
A - DEGA - CBGA - CBGA - G B E - D C D B G A
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- KVRAF
- 3303 posts since 6 Jul, 2012 from Sick-cily
Meanwhile, in italy...
C= DO
D= RE
E= MI
F= FA
G= SOL
A= LA
B= SI
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C= DO
D= RE
E= MI
F= FA
G= SOL
A= LA
B= SI
...
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- KVRAF
- 2751 posts since 15 Apr, 2004 from Capital City, UK
I had a glockenspiel when I was 10 which had interchangable H and B - I knew, relative to the piano, B was Bb and H was B natural, but I didn't know why.
I asked my music teacher back then and in my blur of a memory it originated on the German composers desks, something to do with them needing to differentiate between the two forms of B notes (one being a semi-tone above A and the other being a whole-tone above A) and the symbol for the 'natural' B looked like an 'h'. On score they would have written the note on the stave and placed the natural after the blob, but on instruments with the notes written on a big fat H was used.
Not sure how the traditional western score eventually ended up with B instead of H and Bb instead of B; probably something to do with the homogenisation of chromatic scales.. more reading to do I suspect
I asked my music teacher back then and in my blur of a memory it originated on the German composers desks, something to do with them needing to differentiate between the two forms of B notes (one being a semi-tone above A and the other being a whole-tone above A) and the symbol for the 'natural' B looked like an 'h'. On score they would have written the note on the stave and placed the natural after the blob, but on instruments with the notes written on a big fat H was used.
Not sure how the traditional western score eventually ended up with B instead of H and Bb instead of B; probably something to do with the homogenisation of chromatic scales.. more reading to do I suspect
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- 3231 posts since 10 Nov, 2013 from Germany
In history there was a "B-rotundum", and the "B-quadratum". While in the english area this evolved to B-flat and B in german area it evolved to B and H.
I (as a german) like the english notation better.
I (as a german) like the english notation better.
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- KVRAF
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- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
I think I do to, more logical with A B C D E F GChris-S wrote:I like the english notation better
But I can't unlearn what I have learnt
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- KVRAF
- 4727 posts since 25 Mar, 2006 from The city by the bay
Blame it on Bach!
Then again, that motif has been used in quite a few great works...In music, the BACH motif is the motif, a succession of notes important or characteristic to a piece, B flat, A, C, B natural. In German musical nomenclature, in which the note B natural is written as H and the B flat as B, it forms Johann Sebastian Bach's family name.