From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V2 #46 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Monday, July 3 2000 Volume 02 : Number 046 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V2 #45 [Erik Jansen ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:58:07 +0200 From: Erik Jansen Subject: OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V2 #45 >The only thing - what on earth is Hm ? I thought the scale only went from >A-G! >Cheers >Jane Hello Jane, There are 2 possible answers to your question: 1) It is a typo. I have no idea what it should have been then. 2) The transcription is made by a german person. In the classical german music notation system, there used to be a scale from A to H. This comes from an old tuning system in which what we now call B was actually B-flat, and H was B. In germany many people still use this type of notation. You can check the second alternative out by playing a Bm chord whenever you see Hm, and listen which sounds better. Erik - -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Erik Jansen Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information Spinoza Building, room B.01.28 mail address: NICI, P.O.Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands e-mail: ejansen@nici.kun.nl tel: +31 (0)24 36 16041 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V2 #46 *********************************