source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 23:15:01 -0800 Subject: Re: Allotonality From: ribarbe@garlic.com (Atlas Eclipticalis) >Anyway, at that time I coined and proposed the term "allotonality" >meaning "alternative tunings" (allos = other), which seemed more >all-inclusive and captured the essential spirit of "xenharmonic" >without the implication of oddness. I've never heard anybody else use >it, though I was glad when I discovered the Alternate Tuning mailing >list had come up with the same idea in naming themselves. Under that >concept, 12-TET just becomes one valid alternative among an infinity of >tonal possibilities. Even though you invented the term to mean something and all, Id like to add my 2 cents to a definition. There is Tonality, and from that - atonality, polytonality and bitonality etc. These words with tonality in them describe sorts of composition methods, tricks and hints etc. Allotonality might be the strange methods enabled by alternative tuning systems. rick --- E am not especially clever, just basically very average, E merely try to maximise thee effectiveness of whatever gifts or abilities E have by focusing them towards what E want to happen. Genesis P-Orridge finger for PGP pub key 9 Jul 81 TGHQGB pLUNDERaNDaSSIMILATEtHEhISTORYoFmUSIC http://garlic.com/~ribarbe/vth Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:26 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00440; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:27:48 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00438 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA03043; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 14:27:45 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 14:27:45 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu