I don't know how the names of the notes were arrived at historically, but
they make sense in terms of representing the sounds they are associated
with.
Ro is a low sound, and I is a high one, just naturally the way you say it.
The ones in the middle kind of fall along the spectrum.
On 01.10.2 7:46 PM, "James Jennings" <jennings@megaseattle.com> opined:
> I'm curious, how did they decide to associate particular kana
> ("ro-tsu-re...") with certain notes on the shakuhachi? They say that
> "do-re-mi..." came from the first syllables of the lines of a hymn to
> Saint John the Baptist.
> <http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/~spencer/FF/G.html#Guido%20d'Arezzo>
> Is there something similar going on here?
>
> A related question is why different schools have different note
> names, but I'm mostly interested is what kind of system it is, rather
> than the precise details.
>
> Curiously,
> James
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