source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 19:36:02 +0200 Subject: JI modes From: "Collins, Gordon" >>Well-temperaments reduced that number to >>12 only in the 18th century. So the modes have almost *always* been used in >>JI, and *never* in 12TET! > > Well... It's not like the roughly 250 years that has elapsed since the >mid 18th century is exactly, an insignificantly short time. Not at all. But the church modes have not been *used* in all that time, either as a basis for theory or as a basis for practical music. Gordon Collins Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 20 May 1997 05:01 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05753; Tue, 20 May 1997 05:01:36 +0200 Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 05:01:36 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05748 Received: (qmail 29478 invoked from network); 20 May 1997 03:01:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 May 1997 03:01:32 -0000 Message-Id: <338116F1.43A8@dnvr.uswest.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu