source file: mills3.txt Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 00:42:08 +0100 Subject: 31-tone equal melodic progression From: Gregg Gibson Graham Breed wrote: > So, the melody C-D-Dbb-Cx-Dbb-Cx-Dbb-D is the same as C-D-C-D-C-D-C-D? > You don't hear the interval Dbb-Cx as a semitone? This melody (if this can be called a melody, and not a purely spoken-language progression) would indeed be heard, played in 31-tone equal as a slightly out-of-tune C-D-C-D-C-D-C-D. The semitone between Dbb and Cx would be heard as a semitone indeed, but you are assuming that the listener would be able to hold in his mind two different tonal centres through a long sequence of tonally unrelated pitches, which is very dubious. To my own ears this sequence sounds simply like the tonal progression C-D-C-D etc, but badly out of tune. Question: can you _sing_ this progression... accurately? If so, you are a true lusus natur?. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Gregg Gibson Subject: Re: septimal intervals PostedDate: 12-12-97 01:03:53 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: 12-12-97 01:15:08-12-12-97 01:15:09,12-12-97 01:14:53-12-12-97 01:14:54 DeliveredDate: 12-12-97 01:14:54 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 C125656B.0001BC4A; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 01:16:53 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA13337; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 01:03:53 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 01:03:53 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA13340 Received: (qmail 846 invoked from network); 11 Dec 1997 16:03:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Dec 1997 16:03:48 -0800 Message-Id: <3490E1C8.5A20@ww-interlink.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu