source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 07:50:28 -0800 Subject: More misc. replies From: John Chalmers Dan: I agree about Aristoxenos not proposing ET and being the first cognitive scientist. BTW, Winnington-Ingram has a good discussion of his tunings in "Aristoxenos and the Intervals of Greek Music." Class. Quart. 26: 195-208 (1932). As for Armenian's being originally Phrygians, recent reclassifications of the various branches of the Indo-European language family have placed Armenian with Greek (formerly it was unclassifiable, partly because so much of the basic vocabulary had been replaced by Iranian, etc.). The language of the Old Phrygian inscriptions has been considered cognate to Greek also. Greek is now also grouped with Indo-Iranian, despite being a "kentum" rather than "satem" language. (Other newer groupings are Celtic with Tokharian and no longer with Italic, and Balto-Slavic with Germanic rather than Indo-Iranian.) But, I digress. I saw a book not too long ago on Turkish Modes (Maqam, by Karl Signell), but I can't recall whether the scales were quantized to 24-tet or Pythagorean. I've seentwo different descriptions of Iranian music, one in terms of commas, limmas and whole tones, the other in 1/4-tones. Unfortunately, "1/4 tone" is also used generically by some authors for any sort of interval less than a tempered semitone. --John Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 20:19 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03157; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 20:22:19 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03242 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA19895; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 11:22:15 -0800 Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 11:22:15 -0800 Message-Id: <32C25836.62A0@ix.netcom.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu