source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 21:37:15 -0800 Subject: JI is a system, not a theory From: Will Grant I found Charles Lucy's last post interesting, distinguishing amongst theories and laws. I think it might be useful to add "systems" to the available categories. Just intonation is an arrangement that succeeds in organizing sounds in a way that makes sense to people. That doesn't mean that it's a theory that explains physical givens, nor does it mean that it's an objective law mapping reality. Yours, Will Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:56 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA10259; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:56:18 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA10261 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id WAA29813; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:54:40 -0800 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:54:40 -0800 Message-Id: <199702180653.WAA00938@sunatg1> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu