source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 20:13:10 -0700 Subject: Re: equal temperament From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >A fundamental property of an equal tempered scale is symmetry. The intervals >available at any note are the same as those from any other note in the >scale. ... Since every >note can play every role as the context shifts, then the uniform availability >of intervals at each note is required. So modulation pushes one to equal >temperament. Or it could push you to dynamically-retuned just intonation. That was not even close to possible as little as two decades ago, but it's becoming a reality as we speak. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 5 May 1997 06:19 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04648; Mon, 5 May 1997 06:19:31 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04676 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id VAA22407; Sun, 4 May 1997 21:17:51 -0700 Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 21:17:51 -0700 Message-Id: <336D62BA.2501@dnvr.uswest.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu