source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 22:36:20 +0100 Subject: A Parlor Trick From: Gregg Gibson Here is some interesting, though quite informal evidence that singers find it exceedingly difficult to hold even the consonant intervals of 12-tone equal present in their musical imagination, and that they tend to gravitate rather to the 19-tone equal intervals. Have a singer sing C-D-E E-F#-G# G#-A#-B#. In my experience very few singers will come out anywhere near the octave, nor will they end 41 cents flat of the octave (which is what would occur were they singing perfectly just thirds.) Instead they tend to end very nearly 1/3 tone flat of the octave - which is the 19-tone equal interval. A few singers are so conversant with the 12-tone equal major third that they do come out very near the octave - but they often remark on how mistuned their third major third (G#-A#-B#) sounds. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Gregg Gibson Subject: Tuning Artefacts PostedDate: 13-12-97 22:51:46 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: 13-12-97 22:49:49-13-12-97 22:49:50,13-12-97 22:49:32-13-12-97 22:49:33 DeliveredDate: 13-12-97 22:49:33 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 C125656C.0077E7E5; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 22:51:37 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA14665; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 22:51:46 +0100 Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 22:51:46 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA14668 Received: (qmail 23026 invoked from network); 13 Dec 1997 13:51:43 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Dec 1997 13:51:43 -0800 Message-Id: <349365DE.21A0@ww-interlink.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu