Re; frequency counters

Andrew Souter writes:
> I do not have acces to any soft of hardware frequency counter, and
> currently I work on an 68040 Mac and do not know of any software counters.

There is a shareware oscilloscope program for Mac, which includes a digital
frequency meter. I don't recall the name of it (it was on a friend's
machine, I use a PC), but I'm sure it can be found from somewhere like
shareware.com.

Pat Missin.



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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, PAULE wrote:
> Of course the major mode was not one
> of the favorite modes of the diatonic scale until triadic harmony had been
> in use for some time -- the tritone resolves to the tonic triad only in the
> major and minor modes.

A minor quibble--this is true if the voices are led in contrary motion,
but using oblique motion the tritones in the Phrygian and Lydian modes
resolve to the tonic fifth.

> My paper is an attempt to find a set of pitches
> which, like the diatonic scale, stands up on a melodic basis alone, but
> leads as naturally to 7-limit harmony and 7-limit tonality, as the diatonic
> scale leads to 5-limit harmony and tonality, and (if you believe Yasser was
> on the right track) as the pentatonic scale leads to 3-limit harmony and
> tonality. The attempt succeeds even though I look no farther than the first
> 34 equal temperaments (the solution is found in 22-equal).

As others have said, this sounds like a very interesting paper. (And
once again, it seems to dovetail with some concepts I've been playing
with myself. Maybe it's something about guys named Paul. 8-)> )

--pH (manynote@library.wustl.edu or http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote)
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