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a cappella tuning

🔗monz@xxxx.xxx

6/10/1999 10:18:39 PM

[Can Akkoc, TD 213.10]
> I am craving for more discussion on this list on 'fuzzy' dynamic
> scales as opposed to fixed, deterministic scales.

This idea of 'fuzzy' dynamic tuning can be used to characterize
my Beethoven experiment. Even tho I'm using a fixed set of
pitches, it's a set that's rather large to be considered a
'scale', and it includes twin and triplet sets of pitches for
what Beethoven wrote as one pitch[-_gestalt_].

RE: spelling nit

Paul Hahn is correct. The proper spelling, if it matters,
is _a cappella_ (I prefer to italicize/underscore-for-ASCII
because it really is an Italian and not an English term),
and is derived from the banishment of instruments from church
services in medieval times, _cappella_ being the word for chapel.

Joseph L. Monzo monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
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