source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:39:49 +0100 Subject: frenzied army of ants From: "Andrew L. Kaye" > Johnny Reinhard wrote: > Incidentally, the rapid melodic ascension of "small" microtones > back and forth was described as a frenzied army of ants by ancient > Greeks. Johnny, I think you are referring to that wonderful term "ektrapelous" which Warren Anderson reminds us, Plato used to criticize a certain kind of music. I always took "ektrapelous" to mean an elaborate melodic form with less than the usual amount of recursiveness, something like an Indian raga--thus the meaning "like a meandering trail of ants." Apparently, Plato didn't like this music. Do you have other reason to believe that this refers to microtonal nuances? Do you have another source for this term? Thanks, yr old colleague, androsky p.s. Johnny, I think your points about Billie and Barbra are right on. Well said. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Gregg Gibson Subject: 19-tone equal divagations PostedDate: 11-12-97 04:57:59 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: 11-12-97 04:56:01-11-12-97 04:56:02,11-12-97 04:55:47-11-12-97 04:55:47 DeliveredDate: 11-12-97 04:55:47 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 C125656A.00159A97; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 04:57:54 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA12317; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 04:57:59 +0100 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 04:57:59 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA12307 Received: (qmail 1703 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1997 19:57:56 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Dec 1997 19:57:56 -0800 Message-Id: <348FC6E1.6EB1@ww-interlink.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu