<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Bill, dear Colleagues,<div>the recent practice to use musical terms for cars looks like a legitimate claim for return: <br><div>"Harmony" is an instance, where – conversely – a central music-theoretical term seems to have been borrowed from a "car".</div><div>The greek word for chariot is ἅρμα, <i>hárma. </i>I tend to remember a talk by Friedrich Kittler, where he draw a connection between the general meanings "union" and "fitting together" of the <span class="etyl">Ancient Greek</span> ἁρμονία (harmonia) and the very unique dynamical unity of the vehicle of the chariot, the horses and the charioteer. I don't know, though, whether this is a commonly accepted etymological derivation of the meaning of "harmony".</div><div>Sincerely</div><div>Thomas Noll </div><div><br><div><div>On 23.07.2012, at 18:27, William Caplin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>What do you all make of the latest trend of Asian car manufacturers naming their cars after musical terms?<br><br>We already have Hyundai's "Sonata" and "Accent" (two of my own major areas of research). Then there's Kia's "Rondo." And just today I read about a new electric car from China named "Coda." (I suppose a "Cadence" can't be too far in the future.) <br><br>Clearly there's a prestige factor associated with music in Asia that doesn't seem to resonate with North American or European makers. <br><br>Have I missed others? <br><br>Wishing you all a pleasant summer!<br><br>Bill<br><br><br>____________________________<br>William E. Caplin<br>James McGill Professor of Music Theory<br><br>Department of Music Research<br>Schulich School of Music<br>McGill University<br><br>555 Sherbrooke Street West<br>Montreal, Quebec<br>Canada H3A 1E3<br><br>office: (514) 398-4535 x00279<br>home: (514) 488-3270<br><a href="http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~caplin/Home.html">http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~caplin/Home.html</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br>Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br>http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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