source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 09:44:15 -0800 Subject: Miscellanea From: John Chalmers Adam: re "untempered criticism." I added the words, but I wasn't really trying to write an automatic ranter.... But, it shouldn't be hard, alas. Re CET, TET, MET, etc: Bruce Gilson and a few other theorists use millioctaves specifically to avoid the built-in pro-12 bias of cents. Yasser used centitones (600 to the octave); some French theorists Savarts (300/octave). The late composer Paul Beaver favored "harmos," the cycle of 1728 (12 cubed in base-12) to the octave. For special purposes, I think many these log measures might have their uses. I've invented a few, not entirely seriously, though, and put them in XH 15. BTW, I recently received a copy of "The Micro-Tome," the newsletter of the Boston Microtonal Society. This issue (November 1996) carries an interview with Ezra Sims and an article about Ives's Universe Symphony. For more information, write Boston Microtonal Society, 27 Valentine Street, Boston, MA 02139. --John Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:21 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA28215; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 21:21:26 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA28220 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id MAA22880; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 12:19:43 -0800 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 12:19:43 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu