source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:44:32 +0200 Subject: Re: notation From: gbreed@cix.compulink.co.uk (Graham Breed) I wouldn't know a 12-ET pentagram if it came up and bit me on the nose. However, I find conventional staff notation perfectly adequate for general meantones, including 19 and 31tet. It can be useful to have symbols (e.g. + and -) for raising and lowering by a *quatertone* being the difference between a diatonic and chromatic semitone. This is 1 step in 19 and 31 tet, and is also consistent with a quartertone being approx. half of a 12TET semitone, and a neutral third specified accordingly. For this to make sense, 7/4 _has_ to be an augmented sixth, not a minor seventh. It could, though, be a subminor seventh, or a minor seventh minus a quartertone. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: gbreed@cix.compulink.co.uk Subject: Re: Natural Harmony PostedDate: 11-08-97 20:46:10 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 11-08-97 20:46:06-11-08-97 20:46:07,11-08-97 20:44:31-11-08-97 20:44:32 DeliveredDate: 11-08-97 20:44:32 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C12564F0.00671758; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:46:01 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06963; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:46:10 +0200 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:46:10 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA08062 Received: (qmail 20720 invoked from network); 11 Aug 1997 18:43:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Aug 1997 18:43:30 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu