Re: Bruised Intervals

Happy holidays Margo

> First, to make my own leanings clear, I should affirm that I tend to
> consider 6:7 as an _optimized_ minor third, naming one of my favorite
> just tunings in honor of this ratio. Describing the same interval as a
> "bruised" minor third is a rather different viewpoint, one which both
> Paul and I seem both to find curious -- but which could be quite
> descriptive in a musical context where some other size is expected.
>

Sorry, I introduced the term bruised and meant no slight to any interval
or musical style using such. My comment was in a thread regarding rhythmic
thought and the conjecture I was making was that the way of thinking of
some seven-beat patterns as "two bars of 4/4 with a beat missing" may
have an analog to 7:6 being perceived as a "bruised" (meaning lowered)
minor third. Indeed, the very nomenclature "subminor third" is
making the same reference as "a minor third that something has been
done to" (as major and minor third denote a "third that something has
been done to").

Bob Valentine