source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 21:31:55 +0200 Subject: RE: Well thankyou From: "Paul H. Erlich" >>All this information on tuning is very very interesting, and I think that >>I will just go ahead with a 22tet refretting. I hope it works for >>experimental music along with ancient greek tetrachord species. > >You're going to find that the difference between Pythagorean and Ptolemaic >tetrachords is vastly inflated in 22-tet. I find the melodic progression of a >minor tone following or followed by a major tone to be ugly in 22-tet. >Splitting the major tones in half helps this and also yields a 10-tone scale >that is the closest thing to a 7-limit analogue of the diatonic scale (see my >upcoming paper). > SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Paul H. Erlich" Subject: RE: Misc PostedDate: 29-09-97 23:05:48 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $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: 29-09-97 23:05:30-29-09-97 23:05:31,29-09-97 23:04:29-29-09-97 23:04:29 DeliveredDate: 29-09-97 23:04:29 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256521.0073D7C5; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:05:18 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00079; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:05:48 +0200 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:05:48 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01745 Received: (qmail 8727 invoked from network); 29 Sep 1997 14:05:42 -0700 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Sep 1997 14:05:43 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu