source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 15:35:37 +0100 Subject: Reply to Paul Ehrlich From: Gregg Gibson Paul Ehrlich: > It is not difficult to find examples > >in Wagner, Stravinsky, and jazz where the basic consonances are 7-limit > >tetrads, by virtue of all other harmonies being even more dissonant. Triads > >sound incomplete in this sort of context. By such reasoning one could argue that 15:8 is consonant, because 48:25 is even rougher. Your argument is therefore evidently invalid. English words such as 'incommensurable' admit of several senses. Your definition of the syntonic comma is one definition, but it is irrelevant to a discussion of precisely how the consonant cycles are to be reconciled in an equal temperament. Your assertion that you have never denied 22-tone equal to be unfit for diatonicism comes strangely from someone who has proclaimed this system the salvation of music, but perhaps you mean to preserve 12-tone equal for diatonicism. I have heard this sort of thing before - it always reduces to "something special for ME" and 12-tone equal for everybody else. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Gregg Gibson Subject: My Friends the Aliens PostedDate: 18-12-97 15:59:47 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: 18-12-97 15:57:41-18-12-97 15:57:42,18-12-97 15:57:19-18-12-97 15:57:19 DeliveredDate: 18-12-97 15:57:19 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 C1256571.00522E07; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 15:59:33 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA27347; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 15:59:47 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 15:59:47 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA27353 Received: (qmail 19406 invoked from network); 18 Dec 1997 06:59:43 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Dec 1997 06:59:43 -0800 Message-Id: <34999CEA.4A2@ww-interlink.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu