RE: TUNING digest 819

Ed Dotson wrote:

>Paule, please pardon me,but WHY is the dominant 7th a dissonance? To me
>a tuned 7th is very consonant.

If it is tuned "in frequency ratios of 4x:5x:6x:7x where x=some fundamental
frequency," then it is consonant. If it is tuned according to a diatonic
scale with six consonant triads, it is dissonant.

>Do you mean with respect to the tempered scale?

Any such diatonic tuning is what I meant, not necessarily the 12-tone
tempered scale.

-Paul E.


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At 16:19 27/08/96 -0700, D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
wrote:
>
>Which reminds me, what ever happened to 1/1? I paid
>them for a membership renewal a year ago and got one newsletter
>when I was promised three. Isn't that mail fraud? (Yes!)

1/1 is published irregularly now, not quarterly. You will receive the total
number of issues, whenever they are eventually published. I have never had a
problem with receiving the correct number of issues for my "annual"
membership, and have been a member of the Just Intonation Network for
several years now.

Gary Hanrahan


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