Re: Help? Asciification of musical language

Sally Caves scripsit:

> I'll reverse my system, then.  Weirdly, I also used accents to indicate the
> upper or lowermost registers.  I've never heard of this system.  Is it that
> it's just so obvious?
Not sure.  I saw it first in the 14th ed. Encyc. Brit. that I have.

> Is "do" related to a specific pitch?  I thought it was relativistic.
It can be used either way, do = C or do = tonic.

> there can be no accidentals,
There actually are solfegge names for the accidentals: do, di, re, ri,
mi, fa, fi, so, si, la, li, ti, do.   This conflicts with the use of
"si" for the 7th diatonic note, of course.

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