source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 03:19:14 +0200 Subject: Re: more consonance and dissonance From: "David Worrall" Bill, (gidday mate!) In which of these categories does Plomp's Critical Band theory fit? David. On Oct 25, 1:06am, William Sethares wrote: > Subject: more consonance and dissonance .. > Probably the "definitive" work on consonance and dissonance > is James Tenney's "A History of Consonance and Dissonance". > In it, he outlines 5 different ways that the two words have been > used throughout history: > > (1) melodic consonance and dissonance > (pertaining to monophonic sources) > > (2) polyphonic consonance and dissonance > (I think this is where the small integer ratio > definition fits) > > (3) contrapuntal consonance and dissonance > (as in the "rules" of counterpoint) > > (4) functional consonance and dissonance > (like in Piston's "Harmony", the consonance and > dissonance of an interval is defined by its use - > for instance, the P4 can be soemtimes consonant and > sometimes dissonant) > > (5) sensory consonance and dissonance > (beginning with Helmholtz, the idea that consonance > and dissonance are based on beating of relevant partials) > -- ___________________________________________________ Head, Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology Australian National University GPO Box 804 Canberra Australia 2601 'phone: +61 2 62.49.56.40 Fax: +61 2 62.47.02.29 email: David.Worrall@anu.edu.au http://online.anu.edu.au/ITA/ACAT/ ___________________________________________________ SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Will Grant Subject: Morpheus Filters (Fred Kohler) PostedDate: 25-10-97 03:40:45 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: 25-10-97 03:39:48-25-10-97 03:39:48,25-10-97 02:40:26-25-10-97 02:40:26 DeliveredDate: 25-10-97 02:40:26 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 C125653B.00092210; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 03:39:45 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA26871; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 03:40:45 +0200 Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 03:40:45 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA27002 Received: (qmail 27007 invoked from network); 24 Oct 1997 18:40:40 -0700 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Oct 1997 18:40:40 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu