1200, microtone

Sorry I missed posting to the 1200th issue of the Tuning Digest.
I'm commemorating the stretched octave, to stretch a metaphor. I would
have posted earlier but Icontracted a flu-like illness upon getting
my yearly flu shot and have been sleeping a lot the past few days.

I think I posted to the millennial or millioctaval 1000th and am
looking forward to the 1728th issue (12 cubed, the number of "harmos"
in the duodecimal octave according to the Paul Beaver, an early
electroacoustic pioneer in LA, now deceased).

Seriously, the late Ivor Darreg was also concerned about the meaning(s)
of microtone and microtonal and coined "xenharmonic" to describe music
whose tuning doesn't sound like 12-tet. As a matter of practical
communication, I use the term microtonal as it is generally understood
to imply the presence of small intervals or small deviations from familiar
intervals.

Technically, music in 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11-tets should be called
"macrotonal," but in practice this is not necessary.

--John


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