• Ratette (she/her)@lemmygrad.mlOPM
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        2 years ago

        Sorry let me check on my guitar where the S note is.

        Oh it isn’t 😑

        The S note is about as real as democracy in imperial core countries.

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          2 years ago

          No its not. It is a different naming system that is all. It is like claiming the existence of the word ‘yes’ in the English language negates the existence of ‘oui’ in the French one. It is no less real, nor any more synthetic, than the Eb.

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              2 years ago

              Fair enough. I mean - it fell out of fashion and is largely unused outside of Germany and a few Scandinavian countries. It remains an interesting system, though. For example, in the German system B is referred to as ‘H’ and Bb as ‘B’. Which means the german note system is actually very much modal going (in ‘normal’ not German names) A, Bb, C, D, E, F, G, B (for a scale on A), giving an interesting chromatic turnover (G, B, A, Bb, C) in the middle of scales. Chromatically, it is C, Cis/Des, D, Dis/Es(s), E, F, Fis/Ges, G, Gis/As, A/Bes, Ais/Hes/B, H/Bis, C. This quirk of naming allowed both Bach and Schostakovich to create their BACH and DSCH motifs which they used throughout their compositions.