RE: Why I use == temperament

Harold wrote,

>And to reply to Gary Morrison--in a IV, V7, I progression, I would have the
>tonic of IV descend to the 7/4 over V for the V7, and then let it resolve
in
>its usual manner.

In 19-tet, you'd be dividing the semitone from 4^ to 3^ exactly in half. To
me, this is very different from the aesthetic of conventional diatonic
harmony. If V7 is acting as a dissonance, I'd prefer to use the "worse"
version of 4^ to maintain the integrity of the diatonic scale. But vive la
difference!

P.S. I find that there is no satisfactory version of a just 4:5:6:7 chord
even in 19-tet. The 7/4 is just too far from just to act as a consonance.

-Paul E.


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