source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 21:05:20 +0100 Subject: Reply to Ed Foote From: "Paul H. Erlich" >>Am I to understand that the goal of getting into more than 12 TET is to >>find purity in all intervals? If so, is that not BORING? > >It would be boring if that were the only goal and the usual 5-limit intervals >were the only ones. But there are plenty of other goals. Read Blackwood on >15TET, Goldsmith on 16TET, Yasser on 19TET, Balzano on 20TET, me on 22TET, >Fokker on 31TET, Bohlen or Pierce on 8.202TET, plus many others I have not >read, and I assure you you will not be bored! Musically, I find many of >Blackwood's pieces very exciting, and Ives' to be sublime, to name two >composers who used more than 12TET. > >While theorists for hundreds of years have recognized that tunings such as >19TET, 31TET, 43TET, and 55TET would lend more purity to the harmonies of the >diatonic scale, there are tunings such as 15TET, 22TET, 34TET, 41TET, and >53TET (as well as JI) which do not conform to standard diatonic logic despite >their excellent 5-limit approximations. Forcing oneself to work in such a >tuning can lead one to discover ideas that were inaccessible to European >composers. > >As I have mentioned before, I discovered a 22-tone "well temperament" that I >am quite proud of. Had I not studied 22TET, though, I never would have had >the idea . . . SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Joseph Downing Subject: RE: TUNING digest 1254 PostedDate: 02-12-97 21:37:49 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: 02-12-97 21:36:05-02-12-97 21:36:05,02-12-97 21:35:59-02-12-97 21:35:59 DeliveredDate: 02-12-97 21:35:59 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 C1256561.00712980; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 21:36:02 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04545; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 21:37:49 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 21:37:49 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04544 Received: (qmail 18192 invoked from network); 2 Dec 1997 12:34:05 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Dec 1997 12:34:05 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu