RE: RE: RE: Re: Response to Dave Hill on JI and European com posi t...

>For example the repeated alternating chords:

>S: g' f'
>A: eb' eb'
>T: bb cb'
>B: eb Ab

>I really want to hear the second chord as a subharmonic harmonic seventh
>chord with eb' as the one identity of both chords, sounding like something
>right out of Partch:

>5/4 8/7
>1/1 1/1
>3/2 8/5
>1/1 4/3

>But the conventional analysis (e.g. Schoenberg) identify f as the second
>chord's tonic, and there functional and motivic aspects in the piece as a
>whole that make one not want to immediately give up these interpretations
as
>well. Brahms rehearsed his choir from the piano, so I assume that the puns

>available in temperament were intended.

I don't see any puns or tuning problems here. Does identifying f as the
second chord's tonic imply a different set of ratios?