source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 05:44:24 -0700 Subject: Re: Post from McLaren (Yet another overlooked...) From: jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk Message written at 16 Jul 1996 08:52:58 +0100 In-reply-to: (message from John Chalmers on Sat, 13 Jul 1996 15:39:15 -0700) While I freely admit that I did not know this article (Heinz Werner, J. Psych. 10 (1940)149-156) I cannot say that the result comes as a surprise. Many years ago I was faced with a small-interval set of strings, and I quickly found that the tunes which interested me were all within a major third. Similar effects have occurred since, and in my last completed (OK, only completed) microtuned piece the parts I really like are the melodic fragments with very small intervals. This does not seem to correspond with the JT systems or the various 12ET approximations. I want to listen to more notes, and closer notes. Talking to Rick Boulanger earlier this year he suggested that as so much information in speech is conveyed by small inflections, it was not unexpected that small intervals could be so inviting. Still, I like pickled okra (mathematical joke) and various other unpopular things. ==John Received: from sun4nl.NL.net [193.78.240.12] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:57 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by sun4nl.NL.net with SMTP id AA12180 (5.65b/CWI-3.3); Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:17:42 +0200 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA27753; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 05:16:19 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 05:16:19 -0700 Message-Id: <960716120119_101610.3043_JHP90-4@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu