source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:02:55 -0800 Subject: To Daniel Wolf, re Heinrich Schenker From: Heinz Bohlen I believe that I'm going to disappoint you. But I have to confess that I was certainly not carried by Schenkerian spirit when I did my scale constructions. The reason is simple: I didn't know about his work. I was simply led by the idea that a harmonic scale results from the attempt to fill the framework of a large consonant interval (for instance the octave) with a chosen triad (for instance the Major) and its sub-intervals. The smallest intervals created in this process are then used to fill the voids and achieve approximate equidistance. This infill has practicality for musical use as its reason. Alright, that sounds rather mechanistic, but doesn't already the choice of the triad introduce tonality into this process? Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:11 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA21628; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:13:14 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA21669 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA29976; Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:13:11 -0800 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:13:11 -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