FW: Subharmonic chords

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From: Paul H. Erlich
To: tuning
Subject: RE: Subharmonic chords
Date: Monday, January 20, 1997 1:41PM

Daniel wrote,

>Do you really hear a just minor triad as being built a Major third above an
>absent fundamental?

Not usually! Apparantly our many conversations on this topic have led to
little true communication. But do you really hear it as originating from the
fifth rather than the conventionally considered "root"?

>>''The real test, Daniel, is to start with a just minor triad in sine
waves,
>>and then, without looking at the numbers, and starting far away from the
>>target pitch, try to tune a fourth sine wave to the /7 or 17 purely by
ear.
>>If you can do the former with anywhere near the accuracy with which you
can
>>do the latter, I'll eat my hat.''

>As the folks here say: Guten appetit!

>I tested all of this with my Rayna and a HP sine wave generator. I may be a
>biased test subject, however, in that I have really ear trained though
>ratios of 17. But this kind of bias is always a problem for me: what do you
>really intend by ''prefer''?

I didn't say "prefer," I said "tune." So what were your errors in cents?


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> Can anyone suggest me a way to compose music with a scale that has no
> M3, M6 or M7?

How about quartal harmony, (more or less) Aaron Copeland style.

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