source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 02:03:44 -0800 Subject: RE: Reply to Bruce Gilson From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@CompuServe.COM> > My apologies, Bruce; I didn't see the word "melodically," but seeing it now > I think you are quite correct. Harmonically, though, the situation is quite > different, if you're talking about anything beyond 3-limit harmony (perfect > fourths and fifths). Uhmmm... Perhaps I'm missing something then. It seems to me that a diatonic half-step 1/4 the size of the whole step would sound pretty darned strange melodically too. It's a little bit disconcerting in 17 as it is. To my ears anyway. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:03 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA11322; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:04:57 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA11478 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id CAA18184; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 02:04:54 -0800 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 02:04:54 -0800 Message-Id: <961115100110_71670.2576_HHB42-4@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu