source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 14:11:46 +0100 Subject: Schroeder From: "Paul H. Erlich" > >>>>>I don't know if his more 'popular' >>>>>styled "Chaos, Fractals, Power Laws' has been mentioned. >>>CFPL is a truly great book, and mentions the Pierce/Bohlen scale. > > > Interesting... In what regard does it mention Pierce-Bohlen? > >Equal-tempered scales are examples of geometric series, which are >self-similar. 12-tet (mistakenly attributed to Bach) is discussed in terms of >several "lucky" number-theoretic near-coincidences, such as 3^12 ~= 2^19 and >5^3 ~= 2^7. The Pierce scale illustrates the near-coincidences 5^13 ~= 3^19 >and 7^13 ~= 3^23. A footnote remarks, "This patient listener, who has served >as a subject in musical tests involving the Pierce scale, shows a stubborn >preference for compositions written in well-established traditional scales." SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) Subject: Re: Schroeder PostedDate: 08-11-97 18:55:38 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: 08-11-97 18:54:32-08-11-97 18:54:32,08-11-97 17:54:52-08-11-97 17:54:52 DeliveredDate: 08-11-97 17:54:52 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 C1256549.00625C4A; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 18:54:21 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06823; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 18:55:38 +0100 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 18:55:38 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06826 Received: (qmail 5021 invoked from network); 8 Nov 1997 09:55:34 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Nov 1997 09:55:34 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu