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RE: [tuning] Re: Thank you note -- fragmentary and incomplete

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

8/29/2000 9:39:53 AM

Margo wrote,

>Thank you, Dave Keenan, for your remarks on "crunchiness"; my first
>response is that a usual 243:128 might epitomize crunchiness for me,
>and composers such as Perotin certainly know how to use it, although
>my use now and then of an approximation of 11:8 in certain cadences
>might be closer to the kind of intervals you mainly have in mind. By
>the way, please let me thank you for your germinal articles on regular
>tunings with one or two chains of fifths, vital sources for so much of
>what I'm now about, including some recent articles on neo-Gothic
>hypermeantones.

Just for the record, it was Keenan Pepper who made the recent post about
"crunchiness", while Dave Keenan wrote the germinal articles you refer to.