source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 09:27:58 -0800 Subject: Meantone Corrections From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> Aaaargh! This portion of my meantone explanation had some incomplete edits in it. Just in case it confused anybody: > That combined with the fact that the total error between the third > of I (the mediant) and the third of V (the leading tone) is smaller that > way. In the quarter-comma meantone case, the mediant's error is 0 and the > leading tone's is 1/4 comma, a total error of 1/4 comma, whereas in fifth- > comma meantone the mediant's is 1/5 comma, and the leading tone's is 0, a > total of 1/5 comma. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 18:41 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA22671; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 18:41:44 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA22558 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id JAA06093; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 09:35:35 -0800 Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 09:35:35 -0800 Message-Id: <199702021224_MC2-10AB-B184@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu