Beating and tempo.

Seeing lotsa chat about beat rates ----

Has anyone else been thinking about the tempo to pitch relationship.
I've been setting tempos to match with "tonics" or fourths/fifths of tonics.

Does anyone else hear the connections?

Or maybe the tempo and time sig could/should match the beat rates?

Just thinking allowed?

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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Charles Lucy <lucy@h...> wrote:
> Just thinking allowed?

Lovely pun, though that kind of thinking isn't too common around here! :)

Cheers,
Jon

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Szanto" <jszanto@c...> wrote:
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> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Charles Lucy <lucy@h...> wrote:
> > Just thinking allowed?
>
> Lovely pun, though that kind of thinking isn't too common around
here! :)

Yes. It is a beautiful pun. But one could say that Justness is the
centre of gravity about which most of our thoughts, even the
temperamental ones, revolve. What's really lacking, it seems to me, is
much thinking about tuning in regard to melody. What makes a
scale "work" melodically?

-- Dave Keenan

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Keenan" <d.keenan@b...> wrote:
> But one could say that Justness is the
> centre of gravity about which most of our thoughts, even the
> temperamental ones, revolve.

:) My tongue was pretty far in my cheek, anyway.

> What's really lacking, it seems to me, is
> much thinking about tuning in regard to melody. What makes a
> scale "work" melodically?

Well, there might be a fair amount of thinking, just not a lot of
discussion. It is going to be a very difficult subject, though, don't
you think? And yet there is so much lovely music that is _not_
harmonically, but melodically, based in the world. We (or certainly
*I*) need to learn more about those musical cultures and how the sense
of melody, the sense of singing a line (literally and figuratively)
comes to fruition.

Or something.

Cheers,
Jon (who is rambling after just having finished a performance of
Mahler #2, which has some very unreal moments in it...)

Most of the more melodically based systems seem to be just systems
but on top of this a good constant structure, holds things together nicely

tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

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>Message: 24 > Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:57:31 -0000
> From: "Dave Keenan" <d.keenan@bigpond.net.au>
>Subject: Re: Beating and tempo.
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>Yes. It is a beautiful pun. But one could say that Justness is the >centre of gravity about which most of our thoughts, even the >temperamental ones, revolve. What's really lacking, it seems to me, is >much thinking about tuning in regard to melody. What makes a >scale "work" melodically?
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It's also the name of a BBC Radio 4 programme....

Mark

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Szanto" <jszanto@c...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Charles Lucy <lucy@h...> wrote:
> > Just thinking allowed?
>
> Lovely pun, though that kind of thinking isn't too common around
here! :)
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>