Re: compound chords (Erlich)

>I didn't say I discovered these chords last year, and yes they were
>obvious to me too for a long time before that. I said that I discovered
>a fact about them, a fact which I hadn't seen mentioned before though it
>seems quite on track with the Partchian program.

I'm sorry, maybe I've missed something... what I understood you to say you
discovered was that there can be chords in a given limit that are not
subsets of that limit's Partchian tonalities. This seemed pretty trivial.

Carl

I wrote,

>>I didn't say I discovered these chords last year, and yes they were
>>obvious to me too for a long time before that. I said that I
discovered
>>a fact about them, a fact which I hadn't seen mentioned before though
it
>>seems quite on track with the Partchian program.

Carl wrote,

>I'm sorry, maybe I've missed something... what I understood you to say
you
>discovered was that there can be chords in a given limit that are not
>subsets of that limit's Partchian tonalities. This seemed pretty
trivial.

It's not trivial at all. Given how Partch gives comprehensive lists of
subsets of his tonalities in _Genesis_ as a guide to consonant chord
possibilities, I feel safe in guessing Partch himself would have been
mildly surprised had he been shown this fact at the time.