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PAULE wrote:

'' Pieces in minor tended to end with a Picardy (major tonic) chord in the
days
when the minor triad was tuned 10:12:15.''

Can you identify ''those days'' with any exactitude?

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A quick correction of an error kindly pointed out by Matt Nathan:

I had said, in discussing Aristoxenus:

log(9/8) + log(9/8) + log(256/243) 4/3

What I should have written, of course, is:

log(9/8) + log(9/8) + log(256/243) log(4/3)

However, just for the sake of idle pedantry, the first statement is
trivially true in the single case where (4/3)^(3/4) is taken as the
logarithmic base.

Matt Nathan wrote:
>
> Here's my 2.000 cents on the coming arrival of tuning
> digest 1000.

> First: We need a Tuning FAQ. Perhaps it
> could be an evolving group effort. I've been thinking
> about what I'd like to see in it and what I could
> contribute. The toughest job may be in deciding what
> not to let in so that it wouldn't bloat to the size
> of a reference library. As a minimum, I think we
> need a glossary and an exposition of common
> tuning-notation styles (not the tunings themselves).
>
> Second: If we could find ways to make the exchange
> of actual sounds be part of our communication, it
> would raise by orders of magnitude the quality of
> the experience. When I suggested this before, I
> received from two people almost-angry replies that
> such a thing was too daunting to even suggest, yet
> one other person had already been quietly sending
> me sound files via private email. One idea is to
> find internet-accessible memory space which we can
> temporarily upload stuff to, and then reference via
> URL links in our messages so as not to clog the list
> stream itself. Maybe if we compare notes we can
> find a file format which most of us can listen to.

I'd happily second both of these proposals. Uploading compressed .wav
files by anonymous ftp to a selected site would seem to be the best
option, since not all subscribers will have e-mail accounts (or
software) that can cope with large files.
--
Jonathan Walker
Queen's University Belfast
mailto:kollos@cavehill.dnet.co.uk
http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~walker/



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