Re: [tuning] Digest Number 1984

On 3/28/02 12:18 PM, "tuning@yahoogroups.com" <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:

> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:20:18 -0000
> From: "jjensen142000" <jjensen14@hotmail.com>
> Subject: deriving classical major/minor scales
>
>
> Hello.
>
> I hope this is not too far off-topic. I recently was
> was wondering about why the classical diatonic major
> and minor scales have the notes that they do, what
> principles define these scales, and so forth.
>
> I did some reading and I invented some answers to some
> music theory questions that I did not find ready answers to,
> the result was the following brief online HTML paper and
> some java applets (e.g. Sethares' dissonance curve, ...):
>
> http://home.austin.rr.com/jmjensen/musicTheory.html
>
> Perhaps some people here have thought through these issues
> before, and more deeply than I have? I suspect so.
>
> I would be interested in reading any comments that you might have.
>
> regards,
> Jeff

Jeff, I quickly scanned your writing and found it very perceptive and
curious. As a matter of fact, I have spent a good deal of time thinking
about such matters. Whether or not your concerns are "off topic," that is
right where my head has been for the last two decades.

If you would like, I'd be pleased to send you a complimentary copy of my
book "The Sounds of Music: Perception and Notation." I think you may find it
interesting. If interested, email me at <geskelin@stage3music.com> and give
me the address to which you would like it sent.

Gerald Eskelin