source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:04:51 -0700 Subject: Reply to Gary Morrison From: PAULE >But if you listen more carefully (and only a little more carefully), you >notice that the tonic mysteriously migrated by about 1/41 octave. All of our >musical experience since childhood tells us that we just went 360 degrees >around >and landed where we started, but mysteriously we somehow landed somewhere >else. You don't need non-octave scales for this to happen: try a I vi ii V I or I IV ii V I in 41-tet, 34-tet, 22-tet, 15-tet, or JI. If you observe all possible common tones, the tonic will descend. >Forgive me for pushing one of my proverbial hot-buttons, but some feel that >this wandering tonic effect is a problem to be dealt with, but to me it's a >really interesting, surprising, and useful musical effect. Perhaps; it's centainly very different from the traditional effect. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 18:04 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03980; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 17:05:56 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03755 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA03622; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:05:54 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:05:54 -0700 Message-Id: <63961007155636/0005695065PK4EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu