Got to chatting with Nate (@fowlduck) about musical notation last night. He was pointing out that bits of the notation seem arbitrary and probably archaic, likening it to legacy code of a sort. For example, why no whole tone between B and C, E and F? This post is NOT meant to be a defense of music notation, a “setting straight” of anything, or even a definitive description of musical theory (at which I’m a rank amateur). It just got me thinking about the major scale and the circle of fourths & fifths, which led to some playing around on the command line, which led to this. Enjoy…

For all the folks in #rubyonrails, and beyond.

Pic taken along the trail on the way from Minneapolis to Hopkins.