source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 03:09:32 +0100 Subject: Re: More on the 19-tone Equal Temperament From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >... if one substitutes one such [5 to 10 cents different] tone for >the other in a given melody, not one person in a thousand will identify >that _melody_ as different. Consider a counterexample: the stereotypical junior-high-school band student attempting to learn an instrument. S/he plays a lot of nominally-12TET notes off by 10-20 cents (far less than the 60-cent limit Gregg suggested). I doubt if many would find the task of detecting those notes as sounding wrong, to be a particularly amazing feat of musical discrimination. One could characterize (although it probably wouldn't be an ideal characterization) composing and performing in unusual tunings as doing intentionally, systematically, and/or by design, what that student does haphazardly. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) Subject: Re: lutes again PostedDate: 15-12-97 03:10:21 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: 15-12-97 03:08:24-15-12-97 03:08:24,15-12-97 03:08:05-15-12-97 03:08:05 DeliveredDate: 15-12-97 03:08:05 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 C125656E.000BBDBF; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 03:10:11 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA15400; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 03:10:21 +0100 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 03:10:21 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA15399 Received: (qmail 9854 invoked from network); 14 Dec 1997 18:09:25 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Dec 1997 18:09:25 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu