source file: m1456.txt
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:33:10 -0400

Subject: Paul's paper, and wallpaper

From: Rick Sanford <76122.2237@compuserve.com>

Paul wrote:
>>I hope you get a chance to check out my paper on (two-step-sized)
>>decatonic scales as a basis for 7-limit tonality, either in the
>>just-published Xenharmonikon 17

Me, too. feel free to send it to me.  You're not saying Xen 17 has been
published and mailed yet, are you?  Fow what it's worth, the 7-limit rap 
need not apply: I don't write music with "consonant" chords and things.

>In "Pient Molles" (forum CD piece), it's  5 240-cent big pieces
>with 60-cent small pieces in between.
>>I'm confused . . . is that 5 180-cent big steps and 5 60-cent small
>>steps? 

That's right.  I also tried stacking it all up until the octaves wrapped
around - that works great, too. Especially for sampled metal percussion.

>>By the way, Easley Blackwood describes some amazing properties of
>>the symmetrical decatonic scale 

Amazing is right. The ideas work great.  Too bad more people 
(or even he himself) don't write more music in that way.

Rick Sanford