source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 22:06:31 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1008 From: Gary Morrison -------------------- Begin Original Message -------------------- Message text written by INTERNET:tuning@ella.mills.edu "The category ''dissonance'' is, ultmately, contextual, and may not always be the most useful arbitrator of musical functions. " -------------------- End Original Message -------------------- Bingo! Dissonance is contextual. Discord is not. 4:5:6:7 is only mildly discordant, but I for one find it capable of, and effective at, creating a pull to a 4:5:6 in a V7-I progression. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:28 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA15256; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:28:04 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA15250 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id CAA20335; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 02:26:08 -0800 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 02:26:08 -0800 Message-Id: <009B13F2E04532CE.7044@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu