source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 10:30:25 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 946 From: Matt Nathan PAULE wrote: > Matt Nathan wrote, > >--which leads me to > >think > >it best use the rational intervals directly. > > Unfortunately, real music is more than just an isolated presentation of > harmonic intervals. Therefore, I do not reach this conclusion. In fact, > there are many musical considerations which contradict, and need to be > balanced against, the desire for pure intervals. I chose to reinterpret the > 9-limit example in 41-tet so that I could add notes which would form > consonances with more of the existing notes than would be possible in just > intonation (what is often called "punning"). If you had instruments which could provide you as easily with any pitch as any other, would you still do this? It seems to me that the adding of consonances would be more possible (endless) with just intonation than with any ET. Punning is purposely using the wrong pitch. Matt Nathan Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 21:53 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06789; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 21:56:40 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06833 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA17168; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:56:36 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:56:36 -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