source file: mills3.txt Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:01:18 +0100 Subject: Re: More on the 19-tone Equal Temperament From: "Jo A. Hainline" On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Gary Morrison wrote: > > Consider a counterexample: the stereotypical junior-high-school band > student attempting to learn an instrument. S/he plays a lot of > nominally-12TET notes off by 10-20 cents (far less than the 60-cent limit > Gregg suggested). I doubt if many would find the task of detecting those > notes as sounding wrong, to be a particularly amazing feat of musical > discrimination. > > One could characterize (although it probably wouldn't be an ideal > characterization) composing and performing in unusual tunings as doing > intentionally, systematically, and/or by design, what that student does > haphazardly. > Actually I think Greg's point is that very few would hear what the band student does is NOT out of tune! So why should we intentionally create music that sounds out of tune, haphazardly or not! Bruce Kanzelmeyer SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Mckyyy Subject: RE: Just Interval Progressions PostedDate: 19-12-97 19:04:36 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: 19-12-97 19:02:31-19-12-97 19:02:32,19-12-97 19:02:07-19-12-97 19:02:07 DeliveredDate: 19-12-97 19:02:07 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 C1256572.006318D2; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:04:20 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA18740; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:04:36 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:04:36 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA19570 Received: (qmail 11825 invoked from network); 19 Dec 1997 09:51:26 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Dec 1997 09:51:26 -0800 Message-Id: <79c5059d.3499e4fe@aol.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu