source file: m1389.txt Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:41:40 EDT Subject: Re: Schoenberg From: Nangaku Trying to understand the 12ET overtone Schoenberg discussion - Are we saying Schoenberg recognized that the tempered scale's ratios were a bit off, but if you pay attention to the overtones created by the tempered scale (which will reflect the natural harmonic series), you can include that aspect into your music? Was he trying to connect the equal tempered system to the pure intervals you would associate with just intonation? And would Partch's response be - that's nice, but why don't we just start off with the pure ratios?