source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 05:12:56 +0200 Subject: Re: ratios in JI From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >Would the 'natural' scale then be in the ratios > 1, 9/8, 5/4, 11/8, 3/2, 13/8, 7/4, 15/8, 2 > for the scale CDEFGA(B-flat)Bc ? Do I get this right? The way list members been using "natural" has not been as a specific definition as much as a descriptive adjective. By those standards, that tuning would certainly qualify as natural. >What would this scale be called, and how would it sound ? I have called that tuning an octave-repeating harmonic-series-fragment tuning. Partch would further characterize it as "utonality". Wendy Carlos called something a lot like that "perfect tuning". >What would the scale be called > 1, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, ......., where the fourth is tuned as a >perfect fifth below ? I don't know of any specific name for such a tuning. >Would this be the JI scale? Yes, all of these would be examples of Just Intonation. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 18 May 1997 05:14 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04823; Sun, 18 May 1997 05:14:07 +0200 Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 05:14:07 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04816 Received: (qmail 512 invoked from network); 18 May 1997 03:14:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 May 1997 03:14:04 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu