TUNING digest 1552

>Any thoughts on the book? Amazon.com has it for $17.47.
>
>Music and the Power of Sound : The Influence of
>Tuning and Interval on Consciouness
>by Alain Danielou
>
This book is a reprint with the language updated from the 1940's. The title
was something to do with 'Scales'. Sorry I can't remember the earlier
title. Anyhow the book deals with Danielou's ideas on what 'affect' various
intervals (ratios) have on consciousness. He deals with similar things in
his book "North Indian Ragas" in the earlier chapters and gives a list of
each ratio (3 and 5 limit ratios) and the 'affect' he believes it gives.

The same charts can be found in the web page to do with the 'Semantic'.
http://www.alaindanielou.org/ANGLAIS/SEMANTIC/annexe1.html

Michael Dixon
MandLDixon@bigpond.com

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P.S. The quality of approximations to consonant intervals must not be
worse than the quality of 12-tET's approximations to the three 5-limit
consonances (I'll accept any reasonable weighting scheme).