source file: mills3.txt Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:09:25 +0100 Subject: RE: blues scale From: "Paul H. Erlich" >}I mentioned to Paul Erlich, and he encouraged me to post, this observation >}on his "blues scale" in 22TET: >}> >}>22TET cents >}> >}>0 0 >}>6 327 >}>9 491 >}>10 545 >}>13 709 >}>19 1036 >}> >}>In just intonation, it would be >}> >}>Ratio cents >}> >}>1/1 0 >}>6/5 316 >}>4/3 498 >}>27/20 520 >}>3/2 702 >}>9/5 1018 > >Bill left out my diagram above, leading to a slight misinterpretation below. > >}Functionally, it may make sense to Paul to interpret the 22TET intervals as >}he has done above. However, I definitely hear the 10 step interval as being >}much more like an 11/8 (551 cents) than a 27/20. > >Me too. In fact, I don't hear a 27/20 as anything but an out-of-tune fourth >-- the 27-limit is too high. The ratios are not my interpretation of the >22TET intervals -- they are what would result if my diagram (omitted above) >were translated to JI. However, as I mentioned, in such a translation the >"bluesy" quality of the scale is lost. In any meantone tuning, the scale >corresponding to the diagram would have only five notes. Here is an example >where the "error" of the syntonic comma, so egregiously inflated in 22TET, >becomes a useful musical feature. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Eduardo Sabat Subject: What do you play ? PostedDate: 09-01-98 16:37:20 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: 09-01-98 16:36:56-09-01-98 16:36:57,09-01-98 16:36:49-09-01-98 16:36:50 DeliveredDate: 09-01-98 16:36:50 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 C1256587.0055C385; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:37:15 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09730; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:37:20 +0100 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:37:20 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA13087 Received: (qmail 22203 invoked from network); 9 Jan 1998 07:37:17 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jan 1998 07:37:17 -0800 Message-Id: <199801090931.MAA20640@adinet.com.uy> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu