source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:06:58 -0800 Subject: Re: a semantic question (from a Semitic person) From: Johnny Reinhard What Adam is describing is what my wife Mayumi Reinhard calls "harmonic 13 just intonation" (whereby each note of her scale is made up of a 13 or its multiple). How about "harmonic 5 just intonation" for only ratios containing a 5 or its multiple, etc. Johnny Reinhard American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@ios.com On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Adam B. Silverman wrote: > Is there a specific word to describe intervals which share a particular > numerary nexus? For example, if I want to describe only 5-limit intervals > which include 5 (exclude 3/2, 4/3, etc.). Would you say it is on the > "plane of 5", or "5-plane intervals" (referring to a lattice dimension)? > > -Adam > > _________________ > Adam B. Silverman > 153 Cold Spring Street; A3 > New Haven, CT 06511 > (203) 782-1765 > > abs22@pantheon.yale.edu > > > Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 07:59 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA17329; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 08:00:11 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA17226 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA02376; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 21:16:38 -0800 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 21:16:38 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu