Why is there no black note between B and C or between E and F? Well, this is a simple sounding question with a not very simple answer. You'll need to be sitting up in your seat for this one!

My video on Microtonality:    • Microtonality in Western Music  
My video on 12-tone Equal Temperament:    • Why pianos and guitars aren’t really ...  

📌This video is a revised re-upload. I originally uploaded this video in April 2022, but soon realised from the reaction in the comments that I had skimmed over a lot of detail when it came to the major scale and the tones and semitones. This was causing confusion for many viewers so I've now decided to replace that video with this new, updated version. I'm much happier with the explaination in this video. Sorry again for any confusion caused by the original edition. You can still view the original version if you like here:    • Why are there no black notes in these...  


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SOURCES:
Early Music Sources - Musica Ficta:    • Musica ficta!  
Early Music Sources - Gregorian Chant:    • Gregorian chant  
Early Music Sources - Solmization:    • Solmization and the Guidonian hand in...  
Early Music Sources - Modes:    • Modes in the 16th and 17th centuries  
Adam Neely & the tritone:    • The Great Myth of the Medieval Triton...  
Adam Neely & the tritone (again!):    • The Devil in music (an untold history...  
The Hydraulis:    • Justus Willberg plays the Hydraulis  
12Tone - Why do notes have names?:    • Why Do Notes Have Names?  
The oldest playable organ in the world:    • OLDEST PLAYABLE ORGAN IN THE WORLD Pa...  
The Halberstadt organ:
https://second.wiki/wiki/orgel_des_do...
History of the organ: https://www.britannica.com/art/keyboa...
Cantus Firmus: http://www.estherlederberg.com/EImage...
Plainchant: https://www.britannica.com/art/mode-m...
Accidentals: https://www.britannica.com/art/accide...
History of Harmony: https://www.britannica.com/art/harmon...
The Hexachord: https://hasseproject.com/articles/hex...

0:00 Introduction
1:20 the Major scale
2:58 Microtonal notes
3:56 the history of music theory
12:23 Temperament
13:29 B# and E# exist in notation