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RE: [tuning] listenning recomendations, this'n'that

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

9/18/2000 4:53:57 PM

Robert Valentine wrote,

>I'm not sure that all the serialists are best represented by
>tuning in 12tet. Bergs Violin Concerto for instance is on the
>edge of, if not tonal then tuneable, musics. Weberns
>composition space spends a lot of time in and around diminished
>chord harmonys and melodies. It may be interesting to see
>whether casting it into a 5:6:7:9 system, or 1/7:1/6:1/5:1/4
>makes the 'concords and discords' jump out more.

These are half-diminished seventh chords.

>[and did I understand that from a harmonic entropy, these
>get the same rating?]

Not either dyadically or considered as a whole chord.