source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 15:44:54 -0700 Subject: RE: Re: TUNING digest 819 From: PAULE Ed Dotson wrote: >Paule, please pardon me,but WHY is the dominant 7th a dissonance? To me >a tuned 7th is very consonant. If it is tuned "in frequency ratios of 4x:5x:6x:7x where x=some fundamental frequency," then it is consonant. If it is tuned according to a diatonic scale with six consonant triads, it is dissonant. >Do you mean with respect to the tempered scale? Any such diatonic tuning is what I meant, not necessarily the 12-tone tempered scale. -Paul E. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 01:18 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01874; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 01:19:26 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01788 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA18291; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:19:25 -0700 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:19:25 -0700 Message-Id: <960827191659_466696938@emout13.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