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Replies to Carl Lumma

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>

5/25/2000 9:46:41 PM

Carl Lumma wrote,

>Sorry, I did mean otonal/utonal. Yes, otonal and utonal 2:3 create
>dyads of the same size, but, like Margo, I consider the 'power chord'
>the basic sonority of the 3-limit, since it is saturated.

Why are the bare fourth and fifth not saturated?

>Was anybody aware that his proggies play the sonorities on the graph?

No, I wasn't aware.

>Since he's already done the bulk of the work, perhaps he could be
>persuaded to differentiate between o- and utonal, to add voronoi cells,
>etc.

Cool. If only I could figure out the *&#*^%#* two-dimensional analogue of
mediants.