source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 05:10:22 -0700 Subject: Re: Melody and Harmony From: Johnny Reinhard Melody: linear movement of pitch through time (left brain) represented by the non-temperament of Pythagorean tuning (adding successive fifths to each other in order to derive a scale) Harmony: grouped pitches heard simultaneously out of time (right brain) represented by the non-temperament of Just Intonation (specific pitch relationships as found in the overtone series in order to derive a scale). Johnny Reinhard Director 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 Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 17:33 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA03318; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:33:50 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:33:50 -0700 Message-Id: <009A578E3E90E8D6.0882@ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu