source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 21:10:54 +0200 Subject: Modulating dekanies by hexanies (was RE: Meantone, Partch) From: Paul Hahn On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Daniel Wolf wrote: > Paul Hahn wrote: >> How do you >> modulate a dekany by a hexany? > > Taken any dekany, treat one degree as 1/1. Take any hexany, treat one > degree as 1/1. Now transpose (multiply) the entire dekany by each remaining > pitch in the hexany. Hmm, sounds more like modulation in the signal-processing sense than in the musical sense of the word. Also, the result has, potentially, up to sixty pitches! Isn't that rather overwhelming, cognitively speaking? --pH http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote <*> O /\ "Foul? What the hell for?" -\-\-- o "Because you are chalking your cue with the 3-ball." Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 21:14 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA13719; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 21:15:21 +0200 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 21:15:21 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA19261 Received: (qmail 21822 invoked from network); 9 Jul 1997 19:15:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul 1997 19:15:17 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu