L & s confusion Keep it up!

>Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:30 +0100 (BST)
> From: gbreed@cix.compulink.co.uk (Graham Breed)
>Subject: correction

>When I said L+s before, I was thinking of 7 note scales. For 10
>note scales, I think the neutral third is 2L+s. That's right, isn't
>it?

Many moons ago, I suggested that you and other newbies avoid the use of
L for Large interval and s for small interval indiscriminately.

Please continue to cause yourselves and others maximum confusion.

This will serve to prove my point ;-)

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[Charles Lucy:]
I suggested that you and other newbies avoid the use of
L for Large interval and s for small

When this last came up on the list, I said that I'd try to come up
with something other than L & s to denote two step sizes where, not
surprisingly(!), one is small and the other large... when I did so,
almost immediately there were a batch of post saying (amongst other
things) that such generic terms (as these variables certainly are)
would hardly be the sole possessions of one person... But as I said
then, I actually can (well almost anyway) sympathize with the fact
that to you, they do mean something quite specific...

Here's a thought (and I really don't mean this at all coyly, or
sarcastically); have you considered coming up with two different
variables (that aren't so generic) for your specific purposes? This
would seem to be one (sensible) way of bypassing a lot of (more or
less) senseless carping on this (nearly ridiculous) subject.

Dan

Blackwood in his "Recognizable Structures..." uses H and W, framing a lot of
things in terms of those sizes.

Rick

>
>
>less) senseless carping on this (nearly ridiculous) subject.
>
>Dan
>

Dan, you and I have the same linguistic difficulty. We often type the word
"nearly", when what our brain wanted to type was "completely".

George
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