TUNING digest 1285

>>>In short then, the case for the idea that horizontal and vertical
>>>aspects of music can't be taken in isolation, ...
>>..how you are using "vertical and horizontal"?
>
> In terms of a conductor's score: "Vertical" to me means what you see
>looking vertically down the page, which are notes playing at the same time,
>meaning harmony without regard to time. "Horizontal" is what you see
>moving horizontally across the page, meaning a single voice of the ensemble
>performing over time, meaning (essentially) melody, and when they are
>compared to one another, counterpoint.

Like I thought. So what is everybody talking about? Paul E had said that
music whose harmonies come from the same scale as its melodies is awesome,
and I agree, being a great fan of diatonic classical music, but I also find
music with harmonies from outside the melodic scale interesting. What's the
problem here?

> So sound is, at this otherwise not very interesting sub/atomic level,
>ultimately conveyed by photons. The invention of a new particle, the
>phonon, seems to be no more than a pointless complication that side-steps
>well-accepted physical models for no apparent reason.

Carl


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