source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 21:33:22 +0200 Subject: RE: Tuning of the 2nd sruti From: "Paul H. Erlich" >>I've had a look through the ragas defined on srutis in Manuel Op >>De Coul's mode list. Some of them imply a diaschisma=0, but >>some are probably schismatic. The plot thickens ... > >Unfortunately for theorists, practice does not always conform to the >theoretical value schisma=1 sruti. Being only 2 cents, it should not be >surprising that musicians would tend to ignore it in practice. The most >common occurence of this practice is at sruti 12, which can be used as >729/512 (611.730 cents) or 64/45 (609.776 cents) depending on the situation. >But the diaschismatic interpretation of the sruti system implies that 729/512 >is 12 srutis while 64/45 is 11. Perhaps the best theoretical remedy would be >to consider a 10-sruti schisma-augmented perfect fourth (499.999 cents) a >consonant interval in its own right, and fix 729/512 as the correct tuning of >sruti 12. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: jloffink@pdq.net Subject: Re: harmonic patrol PostedDate: 03-09-97 06:32:54 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: 03-09-97 06:32:54-03-09-97 06:32:55,03-09-97 06:32:36-03-09-97 06:32:37 DeliveredDate: 03-09-97 06:32:37 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C1256507.0018FA6D; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 06:32:54 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA12285; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 06:32:54 +0200 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 06:32:54 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA12286 Received: (qmail 24131 invoked from network); 3 Sep 1997 04:32:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Sep 1997 04:32:51 -0000 Message-Id: <04302502734724@cybersim.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu