Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup tuning the incredible growing Tuning Dictionary

> [Bob Valentine, TD 484.8]
>> The idea here is that people who believe in greater
>> importance for "prime limits", "odd limits" and
>> "overtone series significance" would probably see some
>> different sorting.

> [Jerry Eskelin, TD 485.10]
> You left me here, Bob. I'd love to know what these phrases
> mean in layman's English, particularly the first two. Also,
> how are you using the word "sorting."

>>> [Micah, TD 484.23]
>>> What would be an entry level book covering this subject
>>> of Diamonds?

>> [Paul Erlich, TD 484.24]
>> They are introduced in Partch's _Genesis of a Music_;
>> I'm not aware of any other books that go into them.

> [Daniel Wolf, TD 484.25]
> Partch's _Genesis of a Music_ and Chalmers'
> _Divisions of the Tetrachord_.

Inspired by Jerry's and Micah's questions, I've been
doing a lot of work on my online Tuning Dictionary
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/dict/index.htm

In fact, the original definitions that didn't come from
me came from both books mentioned by Daniel Wolf. The
Partch definitions were unavoidable for some concepts,
and John Chalmers generously gave me the entire glossary
from his book in a text file.

I've finally finished entering all the standard English
terms from the Chalmers glossary, but have yet to enter
the terms from his Glossary of Greek Terms.

Anyway, the info on limits is at
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/dict/limit.htm

and on Tonality Diamonds:
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/dict/tondiam.htm

The Dictionary has grown to more than triple its old size
within the past few days. All new entries have also been
included in the zip file.

There are still a lot of dead links which will eventually
point to entries that have not yet been added; please
bear with me in the meantime.

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
|"...I had broken thru the lattice barrier..."|
| - Erv Wilson |
--------------------------------------------------

________________________________________________________________
YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET!
Juno now offers FREE Internet Access!
Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit:
http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

> [Daniel Wolf, TD 491.1]
> Joe Monzo:
>
> Your dictionary looks very nice. While one may disagree
> with this item or that, I rather like reference works where
> the author's viewpoint is upfront rather than hidden behind
> some claim of consensus authority. I look forward to watching
> it grow.

Thanks, Daniel. I've always thought it important to present
a viewpoint as my own (or whomever deserves credit) rather
than as some kind of hidden 'corporate' opinion.

Many people besides John Chalmers have contributed to my
Dictionary entries, including principally Paul Erlich,
and many others on this List.

I enourage further participation from anyone who feels that
they have something to add to any definition, whether it's
already in the Dictionary or is yet to be added. I prefer
to just keep letting the definitions grow as further viewpoints
are submitted, rather than to try to pare them down to
'consensus' definitions, unless I feel that reaching a
consensus is important, in which case I will probably
mention any debates, with their particulars.

I prefer comments about Dictionary entries to be sent
here to the List, so that they will be immediately open
to public scrutiny before I add them to the Dictionary.
Perhaps the best thing to do is to send one copy to the List
and another to me privately.

> [Daniel Wolf]
> For me, at least, it would be more useful if it were all
> on a single html page with internal links rather than in
> the one-definition-to-a-page format, which is much slower
> to use.

In fact, the original Tuning Dictionary *did* have all entries
on a single HTML page. I liked it better that way too, because
it was easier to maintain and used a *lot* less disk-space,
since I include my standard webpage header and footer for
every single entry.

But as the number of entries grew, I found *that* format
to be getting too slow to use conveniently, so I decided
to separate each entry into its own webpage.

Have you tried downloading and extracting the zipped version?
That stores all of the files into a single directory on your
own hard-drive, and would probably be the fastest way to
use the Dictionary. The current zip file is pretty much
the latest version, except perhaps for two or three definitions.

-monz

the incredible growing Tuning Dictionary

🔗Joe Monzo <monz@xxxx.xxxx>

🔗Joe Monzo <monz@juno.com>