source file: mills3.txt Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:26:50 +0100 Subject: 22-tone equal & chromaticism From: Gregg Gibson Gregg Gibson said: > >}but 22-tone > >}equal is not a temperament at all, but a mere tuning artefact that > >}reproduces the worst defects of just intonation. Paul Ehrlich replied; > >But these "defects" (the non-vanishing of the syntonic comma) can only be > >seen as such in the context of diatonicism! Since we are speaking of escaping > >diatonicism, the relevant properties of a tuning system will be quite > >different. The failure of 22-tone equal to provide both consonant thirds and fifths has nothing to do with diatonicism; the presence of consonant melody and harmony is no less vital for the use of chromatic modes than for the use of diatonic ones; I assume you will agree if you consider the matter. If anything, because chromatic modes have but four (at most), not six degrees (as in the diatonic modes) on which consonant triads are erigible, chromatic modes in 22-tone equal would be even more disorganized than diatonic ones. For enharmonic modes the matter is less clear-cut, I concede. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Gregg Gibson Subject: Melodic Limina PostedDate: 17-12-97 00:59:35 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: 17-12-97 00:57:30-17-12-97 00:57:32,17-12-97 00:57:10-17-12-97 00:57:11 DeliveredDate: 17-12-97 00:57:11 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 C125656F.00839A01; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:59:22 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA17462; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:59:35 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:59:35 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA17465 Received: (qmail 8637 invoked from network); 16 Dec 1997 15:59:30 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Dec 1997 15:59:30 -0800 Message-Id: <34977834.2E4D@ww-interlink.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu