source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:21:46 -0800 Subject: To Heinz Bohlen From: Daniel Wolf <106232.3266@compuserve.com> I was struck by the similarity between your hypothetical construction of the diatonic scale through filling in the gaps in a Major triad and Schenker's tonal prolongation through the same mechanism. Schenker was not interested in a scale per se, but rather _tonality_ itself, and his idea is strictly dependent upon the unfolding of the material (composed into contrapuntal lines) over time. I assume that your model, is, however, one of scale construction rather than voice leading, but your short description seemed to be in the Schenkerian spirit. But then again, I may be reading too much or too little into what you have written... Daniel Wolf Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:11 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA12572; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:13:42 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA12565 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA21312; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 01:13:38 -0800 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 01:13:38 -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