Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:57:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlHGH-0005PS-78 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:57:33 -0700 Received: from smtp.mail.umich.edu ([141.211.93.161] helo=tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlHGF-0005PK-Aj for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:57:33 -0700 Received: FROM [141.213.217.162] (bursley-217-162.reshall.umich.edu [141.213.217.162]) BY tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4721737C.B8A02.17827 ; 26 Oct 2007 00:56:28 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <14b331f70710252138l2ce30962oe53e05bcdbb175c1@mail.gmail.com> References: <97f5058c0710231546w35fb2e6dx278434c13a16797e@mail.gmail.com> <97f5058c0710251106j3c997fecx3430b95159716e94@mail.gmail.com> <97f5058c0710251415w1c1013b9ub3de3faaf736d7f8@mail.gmail.com> <71550650710251632g2603ef69o5807c3bde18700b4@mail.gmail.com> <64e5cd9c0710251644t109185b9hc47811dae372880d@mail.gmail.com> <71550650710251653p80bac49we64a3d4cd01252c4@mail.gmail.com> <14b331f70710252138l2ce30962oe53e05bcdbb175c1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Alex Martini Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Music note names? Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:55:59 -0400 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5674 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: alexjm@umich.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 860 Do you mind giving your reasoning for this? In the US at least, do-re- mi tends to be singers only in my experience, other instrumentalists use A-B-C. Of the instrumentalists I played with in high school, only those who were also singers knew do-re-mi at all. I suppose I could ask some folk here who happen to be studying Music Performance or Music Education to see if it's more common at the university level. (By 'here' I mean University of Michigan, where I'm studying.) On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:38 AM, Nathan Glenn wrote: > > The limitation with do-re-mi and A-B-C is that they can only describe > modern Western music (with 12 evenly spaced divisions per octave). In > my experience as a violinist, only choral folk know do-re-me in the > US. > > Actually, those studying music in the US are required to be very > able with do-re-mi. > >