Music (language) is indeed very simple. Like every other language we start with some sounds, represented by glyphs, letters in a written format, as simple as they can be.
How many notes do we have?
in our case (european-american) we have
12
Can we recognise them individually?
erm, no... we can't... well we can recognise
7 of them by letters, but on the staff we need more overall data even to recognise any of the
12
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problem
Guys, there is a
fundamental problem in modern music language. If you do not like to admit it, rejecting it won't lead to any progression. This is valid in any field of human activity!
Can we recognise their high or low position in the tonal range (a.k.a. "octaves")
?
well, yeah but relatively to one of them called C - the "conventional" separator of the tonal ranges (a.k.a. "octaves")
Who said that should be the separator?
erm... the piano keyboard... maybe... but actually A is the first letter in most of the languages (european at least), but A is the most far on the left key on that keyboard, C is the separator though... we do not know...