Re: Absolute Spanish Beginners

[David Bobroff]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 December 2006 18:21, Daniel Tonda Castillo wrote:
> > Claves/Llaves
>
> I suppose one is "key" and one is "clef", but as they are both cognates 
> of "clef", which is which?
>
> > Métrica de compás
> >
> > Armaduras mayores y menores
> >
> > Valores rítmicos
> >
> > Sostenidos y bemoles
>
> Some months ago Eudy was teaching an introduction to music notation and used 
> this term. I took it to mean "sustained", and called sharp "diesis". I later 
> looked it up in her dictionary (general, not musical) and found that "diesis" 
> and "sostenido" both mean "sharp" and "sostenuto" is what I was thinking of.

> > No se preocupe aún por los naturales/becuadros. Explicaremos esto cuando
> > lleguemos a las armaduras.
>
> I say drop "naturales". "Becuadros" is well known, at least to me who learned 
> the French word first, and can't be confused with anything else.

I haven't been following this thread so forgive me if I'm throwing in 
ignorant input, but here goes:

I learned Spanish musical terms as a result of playing in an orchestra 
in Spain for a year.  I recall that "natural" was the word I heard being 
used.  As for "bemoles" and "becuardros"; are they actually written that 
way, or is it; b-moles (round B's) and b-cuadros [cuadratos?] (square B's)?

The word for "sharp" that was used was "sostenido".

-David