Miscellanea

Adam: re "untempered criticism." I added the words, but I wasn't really
trying to write an automatic ranter.... But, it shouldn't be hard,
alas.

Re CET, TET, MET, etc: Bruce Gilson and a few other theorists
use millioctaves specifically to avoid the built-in pro-12 bias of
cents. Yasser used centitones (600 to the octave); some French
theorists Savarts (300/octave). The late composer Paul Beaver favored
"harmos," the cycle of 1728 (12 cubed in base-12) to the octave.

For special purposes, I think many these log measures might have their uses.
I've invented a few, not entirely seriously, though, and put them in
XH 15.

BTW, I recently received a copy of "The Micro-Tome," the newsletter of
the Boston Microtonal Society. This issue (November 1996) carries an
interview with Ezra Sims and an article about Ives's Universe Symphony.
For more information, write Boston Microtonal Society, 27 Valentine
Street, Boston, MA 02139.

--John


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> the harmonic series, with it's infinite
> series of relationships, is a part of the Creation. We did not invent
> this system,

Hopefully Lucy will respond himself, but I suspect his response will be
that you're deluding yourself, and that the cyclic relationships of his
"pi-based" meantone are what our ears really understand. As with you Neil,
I too find that very difficult to buy, but apparently at least one person
in this world disagrees...



> If Lucy thinks that his variation of the Harmonic Series is better
> than the real thing, then I do not understand his reasoning.

I think he'd prefer you to buy his book!

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