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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 08:38:37 +0200

Subject: Re: Interpreting the work of others

From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison)

>Rousseau's bits, a reworking of a
>rather standard 12TET chord progression in
>15TET. It was familiar and yet totally strange- familiar because you
>could tell what was being done, and strange because the standard chord
>progression didn't end up where you would expect it to.

   Wandering tonics are indeed a curious phenomenon;  I myself find them
very powerful musically.  The effect in JI or in 53TET is similar, but
curiously haunting in that the amount by which the tonic wanders is much
smaller.

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