Positive systems, Ogolovets

Paul: I've had some discussion with Brian about the precise meaning of
"Positive" system. I prefer to follow Bosanquet and call any regular cyclic
system whose fifth is sharper than 700 cents (12-tet value) "positive," but
Brian claims that there is a widespread and growing convention of reserving
positive only for systems whose fifths are sharper than 3/2. I'll ask him
again for clarification next time I speak with him on the phone.

Brian is still trying to track down Ogolovets's articles. His major source
for the Soviet microtonalists is "Russian Theoretical Thought in Music,
Gordon D. McQuere, editor, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1983.


--John

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