source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:07:34 -0800 Subject: RE: And I left out... From: PAULE Daniel, I don't know exactly what you're getting at with the hexachords. Everything you're saying may be exactly right, but I don't think it addresses the original point which is to explain the diatonic and pentatonic scales' success as melodic frameworks. You are quite right that "modal descriptions are most useful in describing local melodic figures," but it remains to derive the likely structure of these melodic figures. When they are not restricted to a small compass, pentatonic and diatonic scales pop up again and again. Deriving these scales from the harmonies they produce seems logically and historically backwards, but is prevalent among theorists. You have to reinvent the wheel when someone keeps throwing away the blueprints! -Paul Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:30 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01064; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:32:05 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01067 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA12246; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:32:02 -0800 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:32:02 -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