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My Friends the Aliens

🔗Gregg Gibson <ggibson@...>

12/18/1997 6:59:47 AM
Johnny Reinhard:
> S'funny thing to present J.S. Bach in the myriad scales of
> well-temperament on the radio annually when the kind of
> listening that is required is considered "alien" to a member of this list.

I believe it is me to whom you refer? By alien tones I mean tones
introduced into a mode with the purpose of modulating it. The term has
been used by others. Some of my best friends are aliens.

I'm afraid I don't much care for Bach, but that is entirely beside the
point.


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