about your inquiries...

Bob,

Obviously, there is some pattern which exists been consonance,
dissonance, and simple and complex interval ratios. Purity lies in the
simplicity of a ratio. This is why a perfect 3:2 ratio or fifth sounds far
superior to an approximation. This is true even if the approximation is
close. I believe that approximations due to an ET system significantly
debase the original purity of the ratios, no matter how close the
approximation is. A listener's perception has a great deal to do with the
quality of the intervals which they will accept. Some people are willing to
accept trade-offs for the sake of "modulation." Modulation was not built into
these ratios, and modulation is not an inherent quality of pitch. It is only
a human contraption designed to give us "artificial" flavors within the
confines of a system with a set amount of pitches. The reality is that
nature is infinite and does not work with a set palette of pitches. ANY
pitch can be a new reference just as well as any other. Everything is also
not equal. Equality must be forced. Equality also takes out the real flavor
of music. This is obvious when one compares all of the 7 "major" modes as
being the SAME SCALE. Everything in any ET system is really one of the same
thing because everything is the same. There is no real variety. Any variety
that is perceived is only the result of an ILLUSION due to the shifting of
references. This is ridiculous. Real ratios do not do this. Each ratio has
a singular identity, and when that identity is alterned, all of the relations
are altered with it.
There is nothing that is "acceptable" if acceptable is your word
referring to cultural conditioning. I prefer not to live in an illusion
where I believe that consonance is based on approximations and not the real
thing. To me, modulation can live in its own artificial state, and I can
choose the pure ratios. Any ET system is artificial and will never represent
the pure ratios accurately because it is uncapable of doing so. Anything is
deemed acceptable on my own terms, not on what other people convince me of.

Sincerely,
PageWizard

--- In tuning@y..., PageWizard17@a... wrote:

>Anything is
>deemed acceptable on my own terms, not on what other people
>convince me of.

Well then you won't mind if other musicians deem things acceptable on
their own terms, which may be different from yours.