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Subject: Re:Psychoacoustics
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Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 03:11:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 28 03:11:51 1984
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 I seem to recall reading once that the ancient Greek music theorists
called the bass notes "higher" than the treble notes. The rationale was
that the bass notes were further from the ground on the lyre or lute, and
that fact made it "natural" to call them the "high" notes.
 Does this ring a familiar bell with anyone? My reference is probably
Grout's "History of Music", but it's tucked 'way back in a closet...