source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 22:29:32 -0700 Subject: Re: 88CET From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@CompuServe.COM> As far as I know at least, 88CET tuning is my own discovery (invention or whatever), but several others on the list have come up with some good music in it as well (Bill Sethares, Paul Fly, and Warren Burt, to name three). "CET" stands for "Cent [per step] Equal-Temperament", so 88CET tuning is an equal temperament where each step is 88c apart. For nonoctave tunings, that sort of nomenclature is less cumbersome than the usual "TET" nomenclature. But it works out to about 13.63TET. I did a series of posts with a lot of detail about 88CET several months ago, but the essential goal of 88CET tuning could probably best be summarized as to represent the frequency ratios 4:6:7:9:10:11:15 and their combinations (like 5:3 and 5:2) in an equal-tempered environment, and at the expense of the octave. Were I to characterize 88CET music in a general way, I would say that it has a flourescent glow to it. Speaking for myself, I have found that it's appropriate for musical ideas and styles that are a little raucous, or that sound mysterious. It's probably not terribly appropriate for Mozart/Haydn-like styles. Incredibly though it does turn to be possible, although with great effort, to produce that sort of harmony and style in 88CET. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:43 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01479; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:44:19 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01476 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id DAA22144; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 03:44:16 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 03:44:16 -0700 Message-Id: <199610070640_MC1-A1E-1A42@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu