source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 17:44:54 -0700 Subject: Re: Replies to Ed Dotson, Gary Morrison, Pat From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> > > Now understand that I don't doubt for a moment that tuning the seventh > >sharper produces a MORE satisfying resolution. But 7:4 provides a > >completely satisfying resolution to my ears, and many others'. > The first sentence here seems to contradict everything else you're saying. > Do you want to modify this statement? Oh, no, not particularly. I was pointing out that a 4:5:6:7 dominant 7th chord provides a completely effective authentic cadence, although a 9:5 or 16:9 seventh works better, all in all. Certainly though, that depends a lot on how you're producing that cadence. I suspect that, in the form of strummed guitar chords, the smaller stepwise resolution of the flatter seventh would be less apparent (if even present at all) than in, say, three-part chorale-like harmony. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 02:44 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA19705; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 02:45:49 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA20029 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA24162; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 17:45:48 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 17:45:48 -0700 Message-Id: <960905004233_71670.2576_HHB55-10@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu