source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 19:47:12 -0800 Subject: Re: In the mood? From: Gary <71670.2576@compuserve.com> I suppose it's fair to say that music is already classified by tuning, but I guess you're refering to on a more wide-spread basis than by a few tuning-heads like us! But I'd say that as long as we keep writing, for example, just intonation music and marketing it as such, it will always be perceived as JI. All that remains then is just the question of how widely the music gets heard, because it will be heard with that label on it. By the way, I too agree with Ivor's idea of moods. And in response to Paul's question on the topic, I'll mention two things. First, Ivor claimed to have tested the 19TET, 22TET, and 24TET moods on over a hundred people and got similar reactions as to their moods (forceful, peaceful, and same as 12TET, respectively). Second, and along the lines of personal experience, I am increasingly of the impression that mood are more easily perceivable than theoretically analyzable interval approximations for example, when it comes to real-world music. I say that in the sense that, when notes "fly by" our ears at typical rates, even for harmonic rhythms, it's pretty difficult for us to pinpoint tiny details like exactly how a major third is tuned, or whether it has any neutral thirds in the tuning. But what I do hear loud and clear over the course of phrases and entire compositions, is the cummulative effect of those qualities. If a composition uses lots of neutral thirds (as I did in a recent composition of my own) it's a little hard to latch on to the exact tuning of any one chord, especially at this piece's tempo. Still, the ambiguous sensation of those neutral thirds is flagrantly obvious in the overall sound of the composition. Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:04 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id EAA18780; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 04:04:14 -0800 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 04:04:14 -0800 Message-Id: <0099E4AE788DC08B.BBDC@ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu