source file: m1373.txt Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 09:13:45 -0800 Subject: comma/error From: Aline Surman Sorry for the late response, but my email toasted and is now back in the groove. A while back, Morrison was chatting about the comma encountered after a 12 note spiral of pure 5ths, which is a well known phenomenon. As most theorists have done, he called this comma an "error" (I've also seen it called an "anomaly"). However, I don't think "error" is an appropriate name for this occurance, since it is a natural feature of the spiral of 5ths...it IS the way it is, so how can it be an "error," which implies a deviation from the way it "should" be? To me, that which is natural is the norm...seems to me an "error" would be a departure from the natural...Hstick