source file: mills3.txt Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:09:06 +0100 Subject: RE: 22-tone exhortations From: "Paul H. Erlich" >}I expect the scale, in its consonant limit, to be significantly >}_better_ than 12 equal in the 5-limit. To my ears, a 5-limit >}chord progressing to a 7-limit one will almost always sound like >}an increase in dissonance in 22 equal, although the 7-limit chords >}are still tuned well enough to be contrasted against stronger >}dissonances. > >In 12-equal, a 3-limit chord progressing to a 5-limit one almost always >sounds like an increase in dissonance. So, just as Western Common Practice >music avoids bare 3-limit harmonies, so decatonic music will avoid bare >5-limit chords. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Paul H. Erlich" Subject: Limit PostedDate: 19-12-97 19:10:08 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: 19-12-97 19:07:59-19-12-97 19:08:00,19-12-97 19:07:36-19-12-97 19:07:37 DeliveredDate: 19-12-97 19:07:37 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 C1256572.00639A7E; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:09:52 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA19819; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:10:08 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:10:08 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA19813 Received: (qmail 12474 invoked from network); 19 Dec 1997 09:53:37 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Dec 1997 09:53:37 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu