Replies to Margo Schulter

Margo wrote,

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I get a more limited character set in the attached message than in standard
postings. Besides, attachments like this fail to make it to the archives and
digests. I'd suggest avoiding this approach in the future, and you may want
to repost for the benefit of the archives and digests.

>Xeno-Gothic refers specifically to a 24-note Pythagorean tuning with
>two 12-note keyboards a Pythagorean comma apart, as used for music of
>13th-14th century Gothic Europe and related derivative styles. Here
>I would emphasize that it is not the tuning alone which is
>"Xeno-Gothic" -- Euler apparently proposed a similar if not identical
>arrangement in 1739 (according to Barbour) for a kind of 5-limit just
>intonation

I was not aware that Euler had proposed this 24-tone schismic tuning, but
Helmholtz also advocated it later.