source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 10:35:59 -0800 Subject: 19 From: Paul Rapoport While there are undoubtedly many new ways to use 19 that are truly wonderful, some of which Brian McLaren has described, his assertion that traditional 12-note modes of thinking must be abandoned is contradicted by the aural evidence. In addition, to say that the intervals of 1/19 and 2/19 do not sound like a semitone also seems contradicted by experience. I think it best to keep in mind that a "semitone," like all intervals, has a range of acceptability, depending on many factors; to compare the 63-cent interval and 126-cent interval to 100 cents grounds the discussion too firmly to 12-note ET as a standard. There are certainly problems using 1/19 and 2/19 as a semitone. Those very problems may also create solutions as well as lead to some other ways of using 19 which may have nothing to do with semitones at all. Any other opinions out there? ========================== ================================= Dr. Paul Rapoport e-mail: rapoport@mcmaster.ca SADM (Music) tel: (+1) 905 529 7070, ext. 2 4217 McMaster University fax: (+1) 905 527 6793 Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 21:51 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA22126; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 12:50:52 -0800 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 12:50:52 -0800 Message-Id: <960202204449_71670.2576_HHB74-2@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu