John Carlos Baez on Nostr: We give the notes letter names. This goes back to Boethius, the Roman famous for ...

We give the notes letter names. This goes back to Boethius, the Roman famous for writing The Consolations of Philosophy before he was tortured and killed at the order of Theodoric the Great. Yeah, "Great". He was a counselor to Theodoric, but he really would have done better to stay out of politics.

Theodoric is the reason the lowest note on the piano is called A. We now repeat the names of the white notes as shown in the picture: seven white notes A,B,C,D,E,F,G and then it repeats.

[Whoop, Lisa is making me get up, make breakfast and go to the gym. I'll continue this later.]

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