Appendix: List of Note Names

As an appendix to this magazine, we have provided a list of note names in both PDF and Excel formats.

Overview of Note Names

• For basic knowledge regarding note names, please also refer to Section 2.1 of this magazine as needed.

• There are only 12 keys in an octave, but since there are 7 natural notes (the so-called white keys, Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti) and 4 types of derived notes for each (sharp, flat, double sharp, and double flat), the total is 35.

• This list of note names covers these 35 notes in English, Japanese, and German systems. Regarding the Italian system, I have decided that there are few opportunities to use the names of derived notes (such as ♯=diesis, ♭=bemolle), so only the natural note names are listed.

List of Note Names: Legend

• The arrangement of note names in this table is not in the order of Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti, which is common for such tables, but in the order of Fa-Do-Sol-Re-La-Mi-Ti. This reflects my position of emphasizing the "stacking of perfect fifths" in music theory as a whole, and I believe this is exactly where the characteristic of my version lies.

  • In this table, moving one space to the left lowers the pitch by a perfect fifth, and moving one space to the right raises it by a perfect fifth.

  • The stacking of perfect fifths is touched upon in the first half of Chapter 1 of this magazine (around the Pythagoras experiment) and the first half of Section 2.3, so please refer to them as needed.

• The top row shows examples of notation on the staff (treble clef).

  • On the piano keyboard, notes played on white keys are indicated by white circles, and those played on black keys are indicated by black circles.

  • A natural sign (♮) has been explicitly added to all natural notes.

  • Regarding the pitch of notes on the staff, natural notes are placed within the first to fourth spaces, and derived notes follow the positions where flats and sharps are written in the treble clef key signature.

• Note on German note names:

  • I have included my own katakana transcriptions. Note that while Fisis, for example, should more accurately be written as "fis-is," I have used "fisis" to prioritize readability in katakana.

  • Items shown in red indicate so-called irregular changes.

  • Although Asas is sometimes called Ases, and BB is sometimes called Heses or Bes, I have not adopted these in this list to avoid confusion.

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