source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 12:50:52 -0800 Subject: Re: 19 From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> As I recall, Brian cited, as an example of his assertion that 2/19 doesn't work like a semitone, a whole-half-whole-half-etc. symmetric mode, implemented as 3 2 3 2 3 2, etc. He said that it sounded kind of queasy as I recall. When I tried it on my 19TET guitar, I didn't hear what he was refering to, but I have no reason to doubt that he's hearing something real. I think that Paul's right that a semitone can be a lot of things. So if Brian's point is that 19 has no single interval that can perform all of the same functions as 12's single unified semitone implementation, then I'd say that he's pretty clearly right. And he's certainly right that that requires composers to rethink a number of ideas that we take as axiomatic truth. But if Brian's suggesting that 19 has nothing that performs ANY of the functions of 12's single unified semitone, then I can't see that point clearly. For example, it seems clear to me that 2/19 makes a perfectly effective diatonic semitone, and 1/19 makes a perfectly effective chromatic semitone. Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 22:23 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA25232; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 13:23:43 -0800 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 13:23:43 -0800 Message-Id: <9602021321.aa10515@cyber.cyber.net> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu