Re: More about moria

Actually, superparticular, superpartient, etc. are anglicised Latin
words, just as epimore, epimere, etc. are anglicised Greek. All of these
terms are used in the literature and serious theory readers should
become familiar with them. What the hell's the matter with occasionally
learning a new word and thus the correct technical vocabulary of a
field you're interested in?

I do agree that "tricesimoprimal" and "undevicesimal" for 31-tone and
19-tone are unnecessary <g>.

--John

DJ Wolf!
I will have to say i find the term epimore much more poetic than superparticular.
not to mention shorter and easier to type.
Erv has commented to me how so many of your classic and or good scales seem to be constructed
with Epimores. "The icing on the cake" he has called it. Even Partch's Diamond, and the 22 scale
comprising the 1-3-7-9-11-15 eikosany is epimores throughout, accept one place where you have
adjacent opposite functions. In fact all your Lambdomas result in Epimores. He feels it is a kind
of "bedrock" and the simplest of interval relationships, that although not required, is a good
indication that the scale one has constructed is good.

Daniel James Wolf wrote:

> I couldn't agree more. English has never really decided whether to
> prefer Latin to Greek roots, and in this case, we're talking about
> Latin roots which are actually based on Latin translations from
> Greek.
>
> I am profoundly against the accumulation of unnecessary neologisms,
> but these are hardly new, and belong to the established basics in the
> field.
>
> Now, whether or not an epimore is of real musical importance is
> another issue. (One thinks of the great baseball statistian Bill
> James' dispassionate analysis of the error count, where he concluded
> that it was a statistic that had no relevance to the outcome of a
> game. Nevertheless, errors remain a basic of baseball knowledge, an
> historical staple of early baseball theory).
>
> In support of the epimoric, Lou Harrison has often cited the marked
> increase in resonance in tetrachordal tunings composed of epimores.
> Even when figuring in a diminished return on resonance as the
> numerator increase, this seems like a generally supportable empirical
> observation from a significant musician.
>
> Daniel Wolf

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