source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 15:53:00 -0800 Subject: Re: 13th harmonic just intonation From: Johnny Reinhard Mayumi Reinhard's tuning we call Harmonic 13 and she has written several pieces in this tuning. There are 14 notes culled from Partch's Genesis of a Music (pp. 461-463). Tune it up and hear it for yourself. Attributes: great melodies and harmonies, sound beautiful, and quite playable. 1/1 169/168 105/104 14/13 13/12 16/13 13/10 18/13 13/9 20/13 0 10 17 128 139 360 454 563 637 746 13/8 22/13 13/7 208/105 841 911 1072 1183 BTW, Paul and I can now communicate confidently that "it is impossible sing the logarithmic middle of large, unfamiliar interval (e.g. a 7/5) without learning it by rote (and practice)". 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; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:52 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04582; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:53:59 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04575 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA01790; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 15:53:57 -0800 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 15:53:57 -0800 Message-Id: <199611221048_MC1-C5A-2ADF@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu