source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:39:00 +0100 Subject: Seething With Sour Dissonances From: "Paul H. Erlich" Gregg Gibson wrote, >17- and 22-tone equal do possess a certain melodic >independance, but are so seething with sour dissonances that they are >really not worth discussing. Really? I find 19-tone to contain a larger proportion of sour dissonances than 22-equal, as discussed in my "monkeys banging on keyboards" post. The main point is that 22-equal permits one to arrange the 7-limit harmonies into a logical scale, whose smallest step is 109 cents, while 19-equal does no such thing. Since you, like me, enjoy scales which contain many consonant harmonies, I suggest you read my paper, and remember that even in 12-equal jazz musicians use dominant seventh and minor sixth chords as tonics. So far you have proposed no new scales in 19-equal that are not already well-represented in >12-equal. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Andrew L. Kaye" Subject: frenzied army of ants PostedDate: 11-12-97 00:39:49 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 11-12-97 00:37:51-11-12-97 00:37:51,11-12-97 00:37:36-11-12-97 00:37:37 DeliveredDate: 11-12-97 00:37:37 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256569.0081CDC8; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:39:44 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA12177; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:39:49 +0100 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:39:49 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA12174 Received: (qmail 17370 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1997 15:39:20 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Dec 1997 15:39:20 -0800 Message-Id: <348F27A2.DB2E42F2@fast.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu