source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:53:23 -0800 Subject: Re: Johnny's Lingua Franca Notation From: Johnny Reinhard Paul, it is not possible to sing the midpoint of a 7/4 without first learning it by rote, by memory, from a tuning machine. This logarithmic division of a "usually" unfamiliar interval is impossible to divide "on the cuff" into 2 equal halves (of 484.5 cents each). If you insist that you can do it, and I was to trust your veracity, you would be the first person in the world that has ever been able to achieve the feat. Can you sing easily a scale of 5ET? 7ET? Yes, IF you learn it by rote. Mathematical machinations to the contrary, cents deviations from a 12ET grid is for all musicians, not only AFMMers. 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 Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 19:16 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00930; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:03:29 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00928 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA23267; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 07:03:18 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 07:03:18 -0800 Message-Id: <961104150033_71670.2576_HHB56-4@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu