Editing Musical note (section)

=== Distinguishing pitches of a scale ===
[[Music theory]] in most [[European countries]] and others{{NoteTag|[[Solfège]] is used in [[Albania]], [[Belgium]], [[Bulgaria]], [[France]], [[Greece]], [[Italy]], [[Lithuania]], [[Portugal]], [[Romania]], [[Russia]], [[Spain]], [[Turkey]], [[Ukraine]], most [[Latin American countries]], Arabic-speaking and Persian-speaking countries.}} use the [[solfège]] naming convention. [[Fixed do solfege|Fixed do]] uses the [[syllable]]s ''re–mi–fa–sol–la–ti'' specifically for the [[C major]] scale, while [[movable do solfege|movable do]] labels notes of ''any'' [[major scale]] with that same order of syllables.

Alternatively, particularly in English- and some Dutch-speaking regions, pitch classes are typically represented by the first seven letters of the [[Latin alphabet]] (A, B, C, D, E, F and G), corresponding to the [[A minor]] scale. Several European countries, including Germany, use H instead of B (see {{Slink|2=12-tone chromatic scale|nopage=y}} for details). [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantium]] used the names ''Pa–Vu–Ga–Di–Ke–Zo–Ni'' (Πα–Βου–Γα–Δι–Κε–Ζω–Νη).<ref>{{cite book |author=Savas I. Savas |title=Byzantine Music in Theory and in Practice |publisher=Hercules Press |year=1965 |translator=Nicholas Dufault}}</ref>

In traditional [[Indian classical music|Indian music]], musical notes are called [[svara]]s and commonly represented using the seven notes, Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha and Ni.