Chomsky's famous sentence

Greg Taylor is probably referring to "Colorless green ideas sleep
furiously." (There's at least one piece of music with this title--I don't
recall by whom.) Whether or not it's Chomsky's I can't recall--my days in
linguistics pretty much ended a few years after "Aspects of a Theory of
Syntax," which means nearly 30 years ago (unfortunately).

The ongoing conversation between Paul Erlich and me on this list may
continue--here or elsewhere--I've been out of town and very busy. I thank
him again for his insights...

The basic diagrams on Erv Wilson's CPSs may be found in Xenharmonikon 12.
Erv's article is short on explanation, however. His use of 1/1 may be
found at odds with Brian McLaren's, but there is nothing wrong with
fiddling with the ratios in a number of ways, as Brian points out.

My article on Erv's system in MusicWorks 60 is fairly rudimentary and
specific to one particular tuning. There's much it omits and much I
still don't know about the CPSs. Thanks to Brian for mentioning the article.

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SADM (Music) tel: (+1) 905 529 7070, ext. 2 4217
McMaster University fax: (+1) 905 527 6793


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