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RE: constant structures.

🔗PERLICH@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx

9/26/1999 9:42:25 AM

I wrote,

>>OK, but the point is, you will find many CS scales that are not strictly
>>proper.

Carl wrote,

>By the old (incorrect) definition of CS, yes.

Carl, how could you fail to see the implication of Kraig's example, which you
yourself tie to the propriety issue:

Kraig wrote,

>>As you mentioned before the augmented 4th is larger than the Dim. 5 in
>>pythagorean. these occur over the disjunction in a chain of 5ths (seven
>>places) i was not address propriety which as a concept seems to have drifted
>>from my mind like feathers that are blown away when you shake them :)

Carl wrote,

>BTW, Kraig, you may have forgotten what Rothenberg called it, but you are
>addressing propriety here!

Therefore the Pythagorean diatonic scale, and myriad CSs based on it, are not
strictly proper. The 2nd order MOSs and their CSs can be highly improper.