: Does each note have a more specific name depending on its pitch? Other than the symbolic identifier for the pitch of the note in sheet music, is there a way to specify the pitch of a note in some other notation or call it

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In many computer applications referring to pitches with their MIDI number is useful.

If you want to be physical about it, you could use the frequencies in Hertz.

Also, scientific pitch notation may provide a more human interpretable way of unambiguously identifying notes. (Helmholtz notation is similar, but potentially less useful due to its use of special characters to indicate octave. For indicating sharps/flats you may want to look at how they do it in lilypond)

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'Call it by any other name' rather than 'pitch' - The tonic sol-fa (the clue's in the name!) as used in Britain,is an adaptation of the solfege system used in some European countries - France being one - calling C 'doh', D 'reh' and so on.Tonic sol-fa has a moveable doh, being the root note of any key. Solfege says that doh is always C. The names are note specific, and have their attendant sharps and flats.Any doh will have a frequency of 2x, 3x, 4x et al of the lowest note.

This may well not be useful to you for your software project, but could be adapted - doh 1, doh 2, etc. But it is an answer to the question.