source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 19:16:54 +0200 Subject: Help! I've slipped on a comma and I can't get up! From: DFinnamore@aol.com (re-sent due to dissappearance of issue #1065) Marion wrote: > Actually I have played with JI scales that have notes that are > close enough that you probably couldn't hear the difference if > the notes were sounded in isolation. But if I sound one note, > and then introduce other notes from some consonant triad, and > then sound the second, close note and then introduce notes from a > triad consonant with the second note, I get an effect that is > very like a musical pun. Daniel Wolf wrote: > The > just environment may require altering the tonal reference points (e.g. > slipping commas), while each temperament favors particular sets of puns. Are these different descriptions of the same thing? That is, is "slipped comma" a definition for the method Marion described above? David J. Finnamore Just tune it! Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 12 May 1997 22:20 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA10162; Mon, 12 May 1997 22:20:02 +0200 Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:20:02 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA10151 Received: (qmail 12916 invoked from network); 12 May 1997 20:19:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 May 1997 20:19:57 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu