Quick Links This Day in Music History Music Education @ DataDragon.com Music Education Forums Maintain Your Forum Information Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best Sudoku (take a break for a puzzle!) Topic: Notation Standards From the Music History forum. Post a reply or begin a new topic. View other threads or jump to a different forum. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web datadragon.com Author Topic:   Notation Standards timwing8 Registered User Registered: 1/20/2010 posted: 1/20/2010 at 2:00:44 PM ET Thanks in advance for any help. Why is the middle of the staff "C" not "A"? Is there a historical reason? The alphabet starts on "A" why not have the musical staff reflect that i.e. C should be named A). I understand that in early notation C and F were notated with different colored lines and that probably has something to do with the half steps below each of them (or the avoidance of the tri-tone), but why not call those two notes "A" and "D"? Do you think this topic is inappropriate? Vote it down. After a thread receives a certain amount of negative votes it will be automatically locked. Please contact us with any concerns you might have.

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