source file: mills3.txt Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 00:39:16 +0100 Subject: RE: Barbershop From: "Paul H. Erlich" >}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... > >I think that many people will hear the difference but not know whether any >particular pitch is being adjusted upwards or downwards -- they will simply >detect a difference analagous to a change in timbral quality on the chordal >level. An adjustment large enough to evoke a non-diatonic pitch (I mean >diatonic in the sense of several closely related heptatonic keys), however >well-motivated harmonically, will have a different effect, probably not one >that most people would find pleasant. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) Subject: RE: PMA PostedDate: 07-01-98 10:59:29 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: 07-01-98 10:59:01-07-01-98 10:59:02,07-01-98 10:58:56-07-01-98 10:58:56 DeliveredDate: 07-01-98 10:58:56 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 C1256585.0036D628; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:58:57 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA22808; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:59:29 +0100 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:59:29 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA22712 Received: (qmail 17316 invoked from network); 7 Jan 1998 01:59:22 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jan 1998 01:59:22 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu