source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:32:22 +0200 Subject: Re: where do the 5ths go? From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >It is interesting to look at examples of systems where the octave is not >the basic building block but rather the fifth or another interval. The 88CET system I keep droning on and on about is such a system, as is Carlos' Alpha. 88CET has 8 steps per P5, and Alpha has 9 per P5. Bohlen's 13ET per P12 tuning obviously concentrates on twelfths instead. At least when it comes to 88CET, I found value in considering stacks of fifths wrapping within a 7:4, since those are two useful and very clearly recognizable building blocks. Similarly, I found stacks of 9:7 supramajor, and 11:9 neutral, thirds to form useful chord or chord-fragment building blocks. Or to put it another way, I have found stacks of many intervals to have both harmonic and melodic meaning, whether or not we wrap them within an octave or other interval, and regardless of what root pitch you build them upon. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:33 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA30623; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:33:12 +0200 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:33:12 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA30614 Received: (qmail 19683 invoked from network); 14 Jun 1997 10:31:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jun 1997 10:31:32 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu