source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:49:40 -0700 Subject: Miscellany From: John Chalmers PaulE: I don't recall exactly what I said or wrote to Brian, but I did mention the problem of inharmonic complexes and residue pitches. Beyond that I can't say. As I recall, Steve McAdams (SP?) showed that simultaneous and coincident modulation of the partials of inharmonic spectra leads to a sensation of fusion. With considerable misgivings, I am posting two of Brian's messages on the adequacy of the bibliographies in certain of Paul Rapoport's tuning theory papers. As a sometime author myself, I would like to say that space alone does does not permit every paper to list every conceivably relevant reference. What an author should do is to list the most pertinent references in the expectation that truly interested readers will pursue topic and author threads themselves. Bibliographies are primarily intended to give credit to previous investigators and data to support the author's conclusions or hypotheses, not to filibuster for the reader's own concerns. Unless the paper is a general review article, the bibliography does not have to cover the entire field of xenharmonics, only those items specific to the topic at hand. Paul Rapoport and I agree that Brian's attacks verge on being slanderous, but like many of Brian's other papers, they contain interesting and useful material beneath the hyperbolic rhetoric. Brian has uncovered and described some useful references which might otherwise be overlooked by other scholars, though some appear to me to be redundant and repetitive (I've read Viggo Brun's articles in several languages and have found that the most important details of his version of the Euclidean algorithm are expressed equivalently). Follow-up on Gamelan posts: From: Susilo Joko Subject: Re: Electroacoustic Composition from Gamelan 'mbat larasati in the gamelan as far as I know is for shadow puppet performances for example; gamelan STSI Solo, TBS Solo, Semarangan (Ki. Nartosabdo), Notodiningratan and almost pupeteer's gamelan. Joko Susilo 29b Spencer St Andersons Bay Dunedin New Zealand Tel. (03) 4544403 Fax. (03) 479 8885 E-mail susilo.joko@stonebow.otago.ac.nz --John Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 18:53 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA16176; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:53:21 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:53:21 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu