source file: mills3.txt Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 16:08:45 +0100 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1285 From: Carl Lumma >>>In short then, the case for the idea that horizontal and vertical >>>aspects of music can't be taken in isolation, ... >>..how you are using "vertical and horizontal"? > > In terms of a conductor's score: "Vertical" to me means what you see >looking vertically down the page, which are notes playing at the same time, >meaning harmony without regard to time. "Horizontal" is what you see >moving horizontally across the page, meaning a single voice of the ensemble >performing over time, meaning (essentially) melody, and when they are >compared to one another, counterpoint. Like I thought. So what is everybody talking about? Paul E had said that music whose harmonies come from the same scale as its melodies is awesome, and I agree, being a great fan of diatonic classical music, but I also find music with harmonies from outside the melodic scale interesting. What's the problem here? > So sound is, at this otherwise not very interesting sub/atomic level, >ultimately conveyed by photons. The invention of a new particle, the >phonon, seems to be no more than a pointless complication that side-steps >well-accepted physical models for no apparent reason. Carl SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Steven Rezsutek Subject: Random PostedDate: 31-12-97 16:30:07 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: 31-12-97 16:27:44-31-12-97 16:27:45,31-12-97 16:27:07-31-12-97 16:27:07 DeliveredDate: 31-12-97 16:27:07 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 C125657E.0054EDAB; Wed, 31 Dec 1997 16:29:35 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03547; Wed, 31 Dec 1997 16:30:07 +0100 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 16:30:07 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03540 Received: (qmail 12732 invoked from network); 31 Dec 1997 07:30:04 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Dec 1997 07:30:04 -0800 Message-Id: <199712311529.KAA02150@doghouse.hq.nasa.gov> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu