source file: mills3.txt


Subject:  Diminished scales

From:  DJWOLF_MATERIAL@compuserve.com

Larry Polansky has noted that Tenney's use of the octotonic is an
approximation of the first eight primes, reduced to an octave: 1, 17, 19,=

5, 11, 3, 13, 14.  Others have noted this in Stravinsky and work of the
Skryabinists.



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