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== Special status of diatonic ==

I wanted to know, why does diatonic use standard notation (ABC, #/b) while non-diatonic uses different notation (J, &/@)? It can't be for distinctiveness purposes because everything non-diatonic uses identical notation. So if a lot of MOSes will be sharing the same notation anyway, we could use the "ABC" notation for both diatonic and non-diatonic MOS to avoid people having to learn new note names and accidentals.

I wanted to know, why does diatonic use standard notation (ABC, #/b) while non-diatonic uses different notation (JKL, &/@)? It can't be for distinctiveness purposes because everything non-diatonic uses identical notation. So if a lot of MOSes will be sharing the same notation anyway, we could use the "ABC" notation for both diatonic and non-diatonic MOS to avoid people having to learn new note names and accidentals. After all, this notation is said to attempt to "keep new symbols and memorization required to a minimum."

There are also other places where 5L 2s has a different treatment in this notation, like allowing equalized and collapsed for diatonic but not other MOSes.

[[User:CompactStar|CompactStar]] ([[User talk:CompactStar|talk]]) 19:55, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

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 == Special status of diatonic ==
-I wanted to know, why does diatonic use standard notation (ABC, #/b) while non-diatonic uses different notation (J, &/@)? It can't be for distinctiveness purposes because everything non-diatonic uses identical notation. So if a lot of MOSes will be sharing the same notation anyway, we could use the "ABC" notation for both diatonic and non-diatonic MOS to avoid people having to learn new note names and accidentals.
+I wanted to know, why does diatonic use standard notation (ABC, #/b) while non-diatonic uses different notation (JKL, &/@)? It can't be for distinctiveness purposes because everything non-diatonic uses identical notation. So if a lot of MOSes will be sharing the same notation anyway, we could use the "ABC" notation for both diatonic and non-diatonic MOS to avoid people having to learn new note names and accidentals. After all, this notation is said to attempt to "keep new symbols and memorization required to a minimum."
 There are also other places where 5L 2s has a different treatment in this notation, like allowing equalized and collapsed for diatonic but not other MOSes.
 [[User:CompactStar|CompactStar]] ([[User talk:CompactStar|talk]]) 19:55, 6 June 2023 (UTC)