English For Music Students

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

described as enharmonic. Enharmonic notes sound the same but are
spelled differently. Depending on the context of the melody or harmony,
one of the two possible names is chosen in a given situation.


Did you know?

 Birds, similar to human beings, can learn music while still in the egg
stage.

 The earliest known example of musical notation was found on a clay
tablet in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), dated to around 1,800 B.C.

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is
music.”


  • Aldous Huxley

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