source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 17:26:18 -0700 Subject: Re: The Problem with 7 in Musical History From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> > As you can see by this article, Rameau is the one who refused to use the > 7th harmonic and proposed 9/5, locking musical theory into 5-limit. > Maybe his influence is to blame for the current state of music. By the way, Dave Hill, in his landmark lecture demo on JI from the early-mid 80s, also pointed out Rameau's rejection of 7:4 as a minor seventh. However, he went on to suggest that dominant sevenths have increased and evolved in their usage since Rameau's time. So, he went on to build the music on that tape with 4:5:6:7s. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 16:56 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA28177; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 16:57:42 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA28256 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA08394; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 07:57:40 -0700 Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 07:57:40 -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