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Changes to names for hard and soft flats in 'Medieval and Renaissance accidentals' range #263

Open dspreadbury opened 2 years ago

dspreadbury commented 2 years ago

Says Freeman Gilmore:

I have a question about, U+E9E1 it is called a 'Flat,hard B (mi)' At one time only one flat note, it was a Bb.

The gamut was:

[Gamma uppercase] A B C D E F G a b [square b] c d e f g aa bb [square bb] cc.dd ee.

b was Bb, called soft B, and also fa, (U+E9E0)  And it was also sometimes used as an accidental on the staft to make it clear that the B note was Bb.    (the written note B in German.)

Square b was B, called hard B, and also fa, (U+E9Ei)  And it was also sometimes used as an accidental on the staft to make it clear that the B note was B.   Should be called 'Hard B (mi)', is  not a Flat hard B (mi),   (the written note H in German, because they thought the square B looked like the lowercase gothic H).

dspreadbury commented 2 years ago

What do you make of this, @mscuthbert? Do you agree we should change the glyph descriptions of these glyphs to be "Hard B" and "Soft B" rather than specifically including "flat" in their names?

mscuthbert commented 2 years ago

That's probably correct. Maybe they should be "Hard (Square) B" and "Soft (Flat) B"?

I wouldn't include the "mi" and "fa" designations even though they're correct, they'll just confuse people further.