RE: [tuning] Clear word usage

I wrote,

>>For those people who like dissonance, the local maxima in this region
>>are:

John deLaubenfels wrote,

>Paul, aren't you using the word "dissonance" exactly as you advised me
>not to? If I correctly understand the distinctions you were making in
>our recent exchanges, the word "discordance" would be more appropriate
>here. Or am I missing something?

You're absolutely right, John. I'd like to try to correct my usage, so
please alert me if I slip up again. More specifically, though, I pointed the
distinction out to you because it is one used by Easley Blackwood, who, like
you, operates from withing the constructs of Western tonality, and to whom
the dominant seventh chord is always dissonant, though when tuned 4:5:6:7,
is not discordant. I like a more fluid definition of dissonance in which the
odd limit is not necessarily fixed at 5 but is determined by the particular
style/composer/piece in question. Still, you are right.