Medieval instrumental music & early 5-limit - addenda

I had intended to include this with my long response to
Margo Schulter, where she speaks about Marchettus and Prosdocimus:

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I can certainly agree with you that Marchetto's mathematics are unclear;
however, he was no longer alive to defend himself against Prosdocimus's
attacks, and so there was never any clarification.
My attempt to do so:

http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/marchet/marchet.htm

leads me to believe that Marchetto's mathematical ideas may actually have
been quite sophisticated and ingenious; unfortunately, if I am correct,
he did express those ideas badly, which led to centuries of confusion and
misrepresentation of his possibly brilliant theories.

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Previous to that, where I say

> 'IMO, Hoppin may be making a few rather broad generalizations',

I've added:

> and I believe he's British, so there may be a bit of patriotic
> fervor expressed here.

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Also, I have put my response to Margo up on a webpage if
anyone wants to refer to it in a nicer format (IMO):

http://www.ixpres.com/interval/td/o207.htm

It has links to the Microtonal Dictionary, and to other
webpages (mine and Dante's).

Joseph L. Monzo monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
|"...I had broken thru the lattice barrier..."|
| - Erv Wilson |
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