source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 12:16:04 -0700 Subject: JI Puns From: Daniel Wolf I made some more in-depth comments on punning earlier on the list, but I cannot let PAULEs comments go uncorrected. While temperaments can create ''stable'' puns by way of a kind of portmanteau construction (e.g. the interval 4 in 12tet can be read as a pun on 5/4 and 81/64), just intonations create puns by changing rational interpretations in time. For example, a given tone can be approached as the 5/4 third of one chord and departed as the subharmonic septimal seventh of another. This kind of pivot-tone modulation functions in both tempered and just environments to similar effect, but under different constraints. The just environment may require altering the tonal reference points (e.g. slipping commas), while each temperament favors particular sets of puns. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 6 May 1997 21:21 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06121; Tue, 6 May 1997 21:21:18 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06115 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id MAA29366; Tue, 6 May 1997 12:18:17 -0700 Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 12:18:17 -0700 Message-Id: <199705061445_MC2-160C-ABD2@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu