source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:44:57 -0800 Subject: Re: Reply to Kami From: Johnny Reinhard American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@ios.com On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, John Chalmers wrote: > In reference to Kami's questions, I pronounce 7/4 as "seven four," Ditto to John's comments. I've heard the 7/4 is called the "interval of the elephant" in India. Kirnberger used it in a flute sonata at the time of the American Revolution and notated it with an "i". Tartini stuck it in his violin solos every once in a while. More recently, Jon Catler based his melody to "Hey Sailor" (released on M-Tone as an EP produced by the composer). > A few French authors still use Savarts, either 301 or 300 of them to the > octave. In musical conversation the French use an English sounding "cents". Composers using quartertones think in 1200s. You mention Savarts and they merely recognize the term. > I think the least perceptible musical interval is closer to 2 cents, > approximately 866/865, though many people's discrimination stops at 2 > or 3 times this. John, perhaps it should be 866/865 as the level of discrimination rounded off to 2 cents. I understand the context of communicating straightly, however I suspect that music departments everywhere continue to teach that the 7th harmonic - as well as the 11th and the 13th - are "flat" as if in "wrong". > Why would asthmatic children hear higher pitches than normal ones, if > that is the implication of Manuel's post? Well Manual? Being ashmatic myself I have a certain perspective on this. Sensitivity in asthmatics serves as a warning to others of environmental dangers similar to the canaries used in mines. I've heard that there is a bleeding between membranes that causes allergies, in the sense that a usually benign substance has a radical response to it by asthmatic that is "triggered" by the toxin. an asthmatic that is literally triggered by the toxin. Johnny Reinhard American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, #5FW New York City, USA reinhard@styx.ios.com 212-517-3550/fax212-517-5495 Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 05:51 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA04193; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:50:53 -0800 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:50:53 -0800 Message-Id: <960227235007_233062504@emout04.mail.aol.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu