source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 09:33:13 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 967 From: "Adam B. Silverman" >On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Kami Rousseau wrote: > >> I was looking at 7-limit modal scales, and I noticed the weird interval >> 8/7. My calculator told me that it is 4/3 / 7/6. It is also 9/8 * 64/63. >> >> I don't want to sound like I am septimising everything, but could it be >> a kind submediant of IV? The only other time I saw this interval was in >> the scale : >> >> 7/7 8/7 9/7 10/7 11/7 12/7 13/7 14/7. A while back, a Pygmie Scale was distributed on this list, for which some of us composed short pieces: 1/1 8/7 21/16 3/2 7/4 _________________ Adam B. Silverman 153 Cold Spring Street; A3 New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 782-1765 abs22@pantheon.yale.edu Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:22 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA16442; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:21:59 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA16498 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA01158; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:21:51 -0800 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:21:51 -0800 Message-Id: <199701271607.IAB23776@ella.mills.edu> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu