source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:08:22 -0700 Subject: Why I use == temperament From: HFORTUIN@delphi.com REplying to Paul E on Sept. 9: >>What if the seventh of the dominant seventh chord *is* in the melody? Harold, why do you use equal temperaments at all? It it only for convenience? ------------- 1) I find that if the seventh of the V7 is approached or left by intervals of a whole step or less, that it works pretty well melodically 2) Since I frequently compose music by organizing ideas found through improvisation, I find equal temperaments more conducive, especially since I like rather chromatic harmony. However, since much of my theorizing about microtonal composition is based on the proximity of irrational ratios to rational ratios, I may well compose some JI music in the near future. And to reply to Gary Morrison--in a IV, V7, I progression, I would have the tonic of IV descend to the 7/4 over V for the V7, and then let it resolve in its usual manner. Equally and temperamentally yours, Harold Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 06:06 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA18536; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 06:08:05 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA19540 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA13321; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:08:04 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:08:04 -0700 Message-Id: <199609190405.VAA23255@well.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu