source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 17:22:35 +0100 Subject: Barbershop From: "Bob Lee" Paul H. Erlich wrote: >I see Barbershop more as an extended diatonic style where the small amounts >of "bending" required to get from Pythagorean to 7-limit JI harmonies are too >small to constitute a perceptually distinct pitch set (it's Gregg's melodic >limen idea again, but we're talking differences no larger than a septimal >comma, or 27 cents, here, which carefully performed can pass unnoticed in >melody). I think that most people recognize that barbershop harmonies sound better than piano harmonies. If you can hear the difference, doesn't that make it a "perceptually distinct pitch set"? Maybe I'm just splitting hairs... -b0b- // http://wco.com/~quasar SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: John Chalmers Subject: Books, XH's and instruments PostedDate: 03-01-98 17:34:18 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: 03-01-98 17:31:53-03-01-98 17:31:54,03-01-98 17:31:12-03-01-98 17:31:13 DeliveredDate: 03-01-98 17:31:13 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 C1256581.005ACC3B; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 17:33:41 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA07250; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 17:34:18 +0100 Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 17:34:18 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA07223 Received: (qmail 2898 invoked from network); 3 Jan 1998 08:34:15 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jan 1998 08:34:15 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu