RE: [tuning] Re: Counterpoint (for Graham Breed and Joseph Pehrso n)

Kraig Grady wrote,

>In all MOS scales there is always the closing interval called the
disjunction. This interval will have in most >instances a unique quality. In
the major scale we have the closing fifth of b-f. It is this interval that
defines to >our ear just where we are in the scale. It is this area and its
environs that in most cases yield the most >interesting of interval shifts
thus the most expressive points. In tonal music the defining of the
disjunction >area melodically is what pushes it toward a need for
resolution. Something which would remain meaningless >in an open system.

I agree with this 100%. This is how tonality works! I call b-f in the major
scale the "characteristic dissonance". My decatonic scales exploit a very
similar phenomenon -- see http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/22ALL.pdf
<http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/22ALL.pdf> . Hence it is possible
even in some scales that are not MOS (but still very MOS-like).

Paul!
When you use a decatonic scale -do you mainly take 7 tone subsets?

"Paul H. Erlich" wrote:

> I agree with this 100%. This is how tonality works! I call b-f in the major
> scale the "characteristic dissonance". My decatonic scales exploit a very
> similar phenomenon -- see http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/22ALL.pdf
> <http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/22ALL.pdf> . Hence it is possible
> even in some scales that are not MOS (but still very MOS-like).
>
>

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
Wed. 8-9 KXLU 88.9 fm

Absolutely not!

-----Original Message-----
From: Kraig Grady [mailto:kraiggrady@anaphoria.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 4:14 PM
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tuning] Re: Counterpoint (for Graham Breed and Joseph Pehrso
n)

Paul!
When you use a decatonic scale -do you mainly take 7 tone subsets?

"Paul H. Erlich" wrote:

I agree with this 100%. This is how tonality works! I call b-f in the major
scale the "characteristic dissonance". My decatonic scales exploit a very
similar phenomenon -- see http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/22ALL.pdf
<http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/22ALL.pdf>
< http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/22ALL.pdf
<http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/22ALL.pdf> > . Hence it is possible
even in some scales that are not MOS (but still very MOS-like).

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-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com <http://www.anaphoria.com>

The Wandering Medicine Show
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