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Hearing prime-"ness" in context

🔗monz@juno.com (Joseph L Monzo)

5/17/1998 1:11:04 PM
[Daniel Wolf:]
> 'Threeness' is going to have to be heard contextually,
> that is, an 81/64 will be heard as a 3/2 above a pitch
> understood, again contextually, to be 27/16 above a
> known tonic.

[Paul Erlich:]
> Yes, exactly. Contextually, not acoustically.

This is _exactly_ the point I made several times.
I never claimed I or anyone else could hear prime
"ness" in a specific interval -- just that it comes out
when listening to real music. The more, and more
different kinds of, intervals you are hearing, the
easier it is to pinpoint the effect/ affect of the
prime factors.


Joseph L. Monzo
monz@juno.com


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