source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 03:58:06 +0200 Subject: RE: JI vs. ET From: rtomes@kcbbs.gen.nz (Ray Tomes) DFinnamore@aol.com David J. Finnamore wrote: >On the other hand, the closer the pitches of the context are to "ideal,"the >more contrast is possible when you shoot to miss. Right? Also, couldn't >missing virtually all the time limit your vocabulary as surely as hitting >virtually all the time? Then, too, there's always the possibility of >presenting a moving target. Gets hairy, don't it? This question of a balance between hitting and missing reminds me of an article in New Scientist a few years back. It was actually on the wider question of predictability in music. They found that good music was about having some predictability but not too much. We are lead along to expect something and then oops something else happens and is quite delightful. It may apply to all aspects of music. I guess that there is a personal factor in how much we like to be conformists and how many surprises we can cope with. -- Ray Tomes -- rtomes@kcbbs.gen.nz -- Harmonics Theory -- http://www.kcbbs.gen.nz/users/rtomes/rt-home.htm Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 14 May 1997 05:24 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01372; Wed, 14 May 1997 05:24:24 +0200 Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 05:24:24 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01370 Received: (qmail 9571 invoked from network); 14 May 1997 03:24:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 May 1997 03:24:19 -0000 Message-Id: <337921CE.1D4@sprynet.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu