Re: The e-based tuning and metachromatic progressions (Part 3)

Hello, there, everyone, and here's a correction of a regrettable and
regrettably not-so-obvious-until-tried problem with a very important link
in my post, </tuning/topicId_24448.html#24448>, the link
to the Monz's famous discussion of Marchettus of Padua.

When I tested my draft by e-mailing it to myself, I found that this link
caused an error, and spotted the problem -- a missing directory in the URL
path. Unfortunately, when I tested my correction by using the lynx browser
and carefully typing an address identical to the one I now had in the
footnote, and getting the Web page without any problem, I didn't realize
that there was another problem: a semicolon after the address, which
wasn't enclosed in angle brackets as it prudently should have been.

Maybe in this kind of post it's almost inevitable that there will be
_some_ glitches, but here at least is the corrected footnote with the
relevant link wisely in angle brackets:

14. Marchettus describes an idiom he calls a "feigned color" -- freely
translated, a deceptive cadential inflection -- in which a major sixth
expected to expand to an octave (e.g. E3-C#4 to D3-D4) instead
contracts to a fifth with the upper voice descending by a direct
chromatic semitone (e.g. E3-C#4 to F3-C4, upper voice C#4-C4). While
this idiom involves an unexpected conclusion to an anticipated
cadence, our "metachromatic shifts" involve a cadence at an unexpected
place which itself follows standard progressions (here M6-8 and M3-5).
For more on Marchettus, see for example my paper written to celebrate
Microfest 2001, "Xenharmonic Excursion to Padua, 1318: Marchettus, the
cadential diesis, and neo-Gothic tunings" (2001),
http://value.net/~mschulter/marchetmf.txt (ASCII text version)
http://value.net/~mschulter/marchetmf.zip (ASCII text and PostScript);
Joseph L. Monzo, _Speculations on Marchetto of Padua's "Fifth-Tones"_
(1998), <http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/marchet/marchet.htm>; and
Jay Rahn, "Practical Aspects of Marchetto's Tuning," _Music Theory
Online_ 4.6 (1998),
http://boethius.music.ucsb.edu/mto/issues/mto.98.4.6/mto.98.4.6.rahn.html.

Most respectfully,

Margo Schulter
mschulter@value.net

Hello, there, Joseph Pehrson, and I just wanted to say that your "funhouse
mirror" is the best description I've seen yet of these metachromatic
shifts. I'd love to quote you on this, if I may.

Thank you for all your encouragement.

Most appreciatively,

Margo Schulter
mschulter@value.net

--- In tuning@y..., mschulter <MSCHULTER@V...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_24470.html#24595

> Hello, there, Joseph Pehrson, and I just wanted to say that
your "funhouse mirror" is the best description I've seen yet of these
metachromatic shifts. I'd love to quote you on this, if I may.
>
> Thank you for all your encouragement.
>
> Most appreciatively,
>
> Margo Schulter
> mschulter@v...

Hello Margo!

Why, of course, you can quote that... Frankly, I had no idea it was
so "profound..." Congrats, again, on getting the MIDI procedure to
work. I've always enjoyed your posts, but NOW they are really
amazing!

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Joseph Pehrson