source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:11:01 +0200 Subject: Re: Octave invariance From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >>If you allow for the octave equivalence of intervals, all triadic >>inversions contain the same intervals. >How so? The way I larnt it, a simple C major triad in root position consists >of a minor third stacked on top of a major third. In first inversion, it >consists of a perfect fourth stacked on top of the minor third. Well, this premise is certainly clear you instead think of a root position major triad as a P4 atop a m3 atop a M3, and first inversion an M3 atop a P4 atop a m3, and so forth. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:49 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01173; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:49:49 +0200 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:49:49 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA17512 Received: (qmail 2869 invoked from network); 8 Jul 1997 15:49:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Jul 1997 15:49:39 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu