source file: m1456.txt
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:39:59 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: Gary, Hahn, symmetricity

From: Paul Hahn <Paul-Hahn@library.wustl.edu>

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Rick Sanford wrote:
> >>Paul Hahn wrote:
> >> Hmm.  What about a mode like (in 12TET) 0, 1, 4, 6, 7, 10 (steps of
> >> 1-3-2-1-3-2)?  It's symmetric at the tritone, but it has three different
> >> stepsizes.
> 
> Careful - why do you call this a Mode?

Um, because it's a subset of an ET that's evenly enough distributed to
use as a scalar resource?  Is there some stricter definition of "mode"
of which I've been unaware?  There are the traditional Greek and
medieval modes, of course, but I assume in this forum that we wouldn't
limit ourselves just to them.

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