[ABANDONED] The A440 Act

[The New Sicilian State]

I appreciate anyone's care to read over an inexperienced ambassador's draft. I am little acquainted with the legal jargon you all seem to use, and I find it difficult to grasp what needs more elaboration (or less).

The A440 Act

Category: Education and Creativity | Area of Effect: Artistic

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The World Assembly,

Applauding member states' contributions in the field of musical artistry,

Welcoming further and increased efforts in the study and mastery of intricate harmonies and chordal structures and functions,

Seeking a consistent, tangible baseline to promote the ease of musical development,

Hereby,

I. Defines, for the purpose of this resolution:
A. Frequency as the rate at which a vibration occurs that constitutes a wave, a sound wave in particular,
B. Cycle as a single period of a sound wave in which the positive and negative representation of the amplitude was reached once each,
C. Hertz (abbreviated as Hz) as the number of cycles per second,
D. Pitch as the audible result of a high frequency, measured by a specific Hz value,
E. Octave as the space between two notes, one with double or half the Hz value of the other,

II. Establishes
A. The splitting of an octave into 12 even parts, hereon referred to as "semitones",
B. The grouping of "semitones" into pairs called "wholetones",
C. Defines a musical alphabet, notated with the letter A and proceeds up the Latin alphabet until the letter G, thereafter the letter A is repeated.
D. The manner in which these letters are to be assigned as "wholetone wholetone semitone wholetone wholetone wholetone semitone" from the first letter A up the 12 evenly split parts of the octave,
E. "A" as the first tone in the series,
F. Bounderies of 8 total octaves, each notated with a numeral following the note's name (for clarification, octaves can travel from A1 to A8, A1 being the lowest),
G. Defines A4 as the center of all pitches,
H. Sets A4 at exactly 440 Hz

Thank you for your time. Kindly rip this to shreds.

[Desmosthenes and Burke]

Welcome. Since you asked, we shall be blunt:

What action are member states required to take?

Why in the name of Vesta, most sweet, is this worthy of international legislation?

Why, in the name of skillful Apollo, did you choose to standardize the heptonic western conception?

[Araraukar]

OOC: Joke proposals go here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=255807

The A440 Act

Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Artistic

The World Assembly,

Applauding member states' contributions in the field of musical artistry,

Welcoming further and increased efforts in the study and mastery of intricate harmonies and chordal structures and functions,

Seeking a consistent, tangible baseline to promote the ease of musical development,

Hereby,

I. Defines, for the purpose of this resolution:
A. Frequency as the rate at which a vibration occurs that constitutes a wave, a sound wave in particular,
B. Cycle as a single period of a sound wave in which the positive and negative representation of the amplitude was reached once each,
C. Hertz (abbreviated as Hz) as the number of cycles per second,
D. Pitch as the audible result of a high frequency, measured by a specific Hz value,
E. Octave as the space between two notes, one with double or half the Hz value of the other,

II. Establishes
A. The splitting of an octave into 12 even parts, hereon referred to as "semitones",
B. The grouping of "semitones" into pairs called "wholetones",
C. Defines a musical alphabet, notated with the letter A and proceeds up the Latin alphabet until the letter G, thereafter the letter A is repeated.
D. The manner in which these letters are to be assigned as "wholetone wholetone semitone wholetone wholetone wholetone semitone" from the first letter A up the 12 evenly split parts of the octave,
E. "A" as the first tone in the series,
F. Bounderies of 8 total octaves, each notated with a numeral following the note's name (for clarification, octaves can travel from A1 to A8, A1 being the lowest),
G. Defines A4 as the center of all pitches,
H. Sets A4 at exactly 440 Hz

This isn't a law. It's at best a musical notation and even then faint memories from my piano teacher from the depths of my childhood are screaming at me that there's something wrong with it.

Also has at least one typo, so the traditional Educational blunder has been made...

[Kenmoria]

“This is really not an international issue, or even a national one. Different countries may use different scales and there’s not enough global utility in mandating standardisation. That said, you haven’t actually mandated standardisation, or taken any concrete action, which is a requirement for proposals.”

(OOC: Have a look at some other resolutions to see what action proposals traditionally take, but this doesn’t seem to be an international idea.)

[Imperium Anglorum]

When I was leader of my school's orchestra, we always tuned to A444. 440 is heresy.

[Pan-Asiatic States]

Sounds something more for a school's music club, less for the World Assembly.

[Wallenburg]

Congratulations, you just legislated out of existence all notation and tuning systems other than 12-tone equal temperament and needlessly required all musicians to adhere to the same A4 pitch.

[The New Sicilian State]

OOC: yikes

[The New Sicilian State]

OOC: Joke proposals go here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=255807

The A440 Act

Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Artistic

The World Assembly,

Applauding member states' contributions in the field of musical artistry,

Welcoming further and increased efforts in the study and mastery of intricate harmonies and chordal structures and functions,

Seeking a consistent, tangible baseline to promote the ease of musical development,

Hereby,

I. Defines, for the purpose of this resolution:
A. Frequency as the rate at which a vibration occurs that constitutes a wave, a sound wave in particular,
B. Cycle as a single period of a sound wave in which the positive and negative representation of the amplitude was reached once each,
C. Hertz (abbreviated as Hz) as the number of cycles per second,
D. Pitch as the audible result of a high frequency, measured by a specific Hz value,
E. Octave as the space between two notes, one with double or half the Hz value of the other,

II. Establishes
A. The splitting of an octave into 12 even parts, hereon referred to as "semitones",
B. The grouping of "semitones" into pairs called "wholetones",
C. Defines a musical alphabet, notated with the letter A and proceeds up the Latin alphabet until the letter G, thereafter the letter A is repeated.
D. The manner in which these letters are to be assigned as "wholetone wholetone semitone wholetone wholetone wholetone semitone" from the first letter A up the 12 evenly split parts of the octave,
E. "A" as the first tone in the series,
F. Bounderies of 8 total octaves, each notated with a numeral following the note's name (for clarification, octaves can travel from A1 to A8, A1 being the lowest),
G. Defines A4 as the center of all pitches,
H. Sets A4 at exactly 440 Hz

This isn't a law. It's at best a musical notation and even then faint memories from my piano teacher from the depths of my childhood are screaming at me that there's something wrong with it.

Also has at least one typo, so the traditional Educational blunder has been made...

I get that perhaps I missed the mark, even though perhaps I disagree that this doesn't need establishing (but surely would need actual legislation), and knowing full and well that I asked people to give honest opinions, the "hey joke proposals go here" is kind of insulting?

When I was leader of my school's orchestra, we always tuned to A444. 440 is heresy.

OOC: Why 444 and not 432?

[Yannia]

Here is what puzzles me:

A. The splitting of an octave into 12 even parts, hereon referred to as "semitones",
B. The grouping of "semitones" into pairs called "wholetones",
C. Defines a musical alphabet, notated with the letter A and proceeds up the Latin alphabet until the letter G, thereafter the letter A is repeated.
D. The manner in which these letters are to be assigned as "wholetone wholetone semitone wholetone wholetone wholetone semitone" from the first letter A up the 12 evenly split parts of the octave,

Looks like you are proposing the following sequence of semitones:
A - A#/Bb - B - B#/Cb - C - D - D#/Eb - E - E#/Fb - F - F#/Gb - G - A
Somehow i doubt that is your intention, though...

[Separatist Peoples]

"Technically, this is quite good. You've used simple but direct language and ordered your clauses logically. Conceptually, you've missed the mark. Why is this needed? What utility is there in standardizing music legally? There are also rules issues, such as an operative clause violation and a possible duplication issue with extant legislation on measurements. You are to be commended, ambassador. 1/3 is, frankly, much much better than the average new author, and you nailed down the hardest part."

[Sierra Lyricalia]

"My government's official response to this proposal is on this thumb drive," Steph says, holding up a small data storage device. "Please make sure your speakers are turned on and set to ample volume." She hands the device off to an intern, who runs it up to the podium for the drafting ambassador.

Edit: OOC: I echo the above post: this is well-organized, concise, and competently written. It's just that there's no reason for the ambassadors to a giant supranational supreme authority to think it's a useful law to enforce on the entire sum of their individual countries. If you can come up with a law that would be useful, you shouldn't have much trouble getting it to quorum. Good luck!

[The New Sicilian State]

*snip*

"Thank you for the words of encouragement, I suppose I'll take what I've learned here and put my efforts towards something more... feasible?

*snip*

"Excellent song choice... A bit too screechy for my taste, but I get the message."

OOC: No cap tho, thanks for the tips. I'll abandon this project and look to work on something that has actual substance.

[Free Santa Rosa]

If we could suggest, maybe try standardizing music notation instead of a scale? That might make more sense.

[Wallenburg]

If we could suggest, maybe try standardizing music notation instead of a scale? That might make more sense.

Standard music notation depends on standard scales.