Re: [tuning] Digest Number 3476

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Message: 10 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:48:03 -0000
From: "monz" <monz@tonalsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Gene's Bonehead 31-et notation

hi Kraig,

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a great song by one of my favorite microtonal musicians!
(hee hee ...)

I edited out you discussion of equivalences here but by coincidence these are the ones that Fokker pointed out. why do you call it "pythagorean"? simply because it uses
only sharps, flats, double-sharps, and double-flats as
accidentals? but it isn't pythagorean at all, it's pure
meantone.

I call it pythagorean notation because like the document from xenharmonikon 2 i had a link to is based on a cycle of fifths as Erv points out.
Gene is also describing it as the fifth being the generator. -monz

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Kraig Grady
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The Wandering Medicine Show
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Obviously if one were to transpose old meantone music into 31 , there would be no reason to change the notation. I find the premise that this notation would attract any more people to 31 than otherwise will remain a point that Gene and I will not agree. Actually playing the music in 31 might do so regardless of what the notation would be. Message: 9 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:34:47 -0000 From: "monz" <monz@tonalsoft.com> Subject: Re: Gene's Bonehead 31-et notation

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i agree with everything you said in your post. but, with
all due respect, i think that you and Kraig are both missing
Gene's point. as i understand it, Gene is simply encouraging
musicians with traditional training to finally *hear* what
the standard meantone notation has been notating all along.

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Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main.html> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles