source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:54:54 -0800 Subject: Re: Systematizing Tuning Again From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> Ooo. I'd better stop babbling about this, but there's one other equally-important consideration about systematizing tuning: And that is to what degree your nonsystematization is based upon chaos or exception. To illustrate by extreme example, sticking with a strict system for all but one note can sound very awkward. That's kind of like sticking a note from an electric guitar in the middle of a string quartet! But clearly if your entire composition is based upon unsystematic pitch, then no one note is likely to "stick out" relative to any other. The overall result will make more musical sense, even though it's more truly random. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 19:15 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01473; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 19:18:13 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01586 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA26315; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:18:09 -0800 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:18:09 -0800 Message-Id: <199612231815.KAA00974@well.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu