source file: m1500.txt
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 05:10:42 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: Numbers, cont.

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

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Paul H. Erlich wrote:
>>>  This scale is an MOS, is strictly proper,
> 
>>Call me a heretic, but I'm beginning to wonder if these properties
>>aren't as important as I'd once thought they were.  Look at the success
>>of the minor pentatonic in Japan, for example.
> 
> The minor pentatonic scale is MOS and strictly proper, but other
> Japanese scales are among the most important examples of scales that are
> not MOS, proper, or distributionally even (John Clough's term for a
> scale with two step sizes and no more than two specific sizes for each
> generic interval).

?? I don't think we're talking about the same scale.  I mean the one
that's approximated in 12TET by 2-1-4-1-4.

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