Re: [metatuning] Re: psychology of music list

come on now, guys ... there are now 8 posts in this
thread, and it really belonged on the main tuning list
to begin with.

-monz

----- Original Message -----
From: <graham@microtonal.co.uk>
To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 5:36 AM
Subject: [metatuning] Re: psychology of music list

> paulerlich wrote:
>
> > whose consensus?
>
> The list that's the subject of this thread.
>
> > we have 30 years of virtual pitch theory and
> > experiments telling us otherwise. but today, we know that the root of
> > chords (rameau's basse fondamental) is clearly, in no uncertain
> > terms, transmitted to the brain:
>
> The link you started off with
>
> <http://www.srpmme.org.uk/list-archives/psymus/2001q3/000127.html>
>
> says "major and minor chords are equally consonant. Evidence from auditory
> science does not suggest that we should expect anything else." This was
> never seriously contradicted. So you'll have to take it up on that list.
>
> > http://homepage.mac.com/cariani/CarianiWebsite/TramoHarmony.pdf
>
> As this is dated 2001, I don't know if it was around when that thread was
> alive. As I can't download the whole Q3 archive, I can't check if it was
> mentioned.