Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach, 3rd Edition

Analogies and mneumonic processes are welcome to explain to children, young people and beginners, but, they only function as a crutch. For, immediately afterwards he continues from the analogy as being part of the process, and writes:

"Music is written with an alphabet consisting of the letters A through G. Each letter represents a different sound or pitch, musical melodies consist of pitches."

But no, music is not written with an alphabet from A to G, but rather with frequencies, we can say that these letters are only a simple assignment applied to the name of the basic musical notes, which only serves as a guide. Luckily we do not use to write A0, A1, A4, A6 etc as in MIDI protocol, when this protocol measure goes against the alphabet that happens to be alpha-numerical, translated to hexadecimal language works fine in the background.

When in the middle age in Germany some avant-garde person discovered that there was a 'B note ' that had diminished in its frequency, they had to call this 'B moll (B flat)' that means 'Bb', and had to assign another letter for the old 'B note', that was 'H (hart)', which meant 'hard'. Then, there was a hard note and a soft note, 'E flat (Eb)' had not even been discovered.

So we realize that it is a very superficial assignment of what is possible in the frequencies we use to do music. We should not teach beginners in music in this way. Since music was never written with an alphabet from A to G or A to H, but secondary assignments, it started with square neumes that only indicated the height of the each sounds. Children learn and understand much more than we imagine.