don't limit your terminology (was: interval names)

> [Graham Breed, TD 523.2]
> I said yesterday that schismic notation is good for 7-limit
> music. Actually, it's only in the 5- and 9-limits that it's
> significantly better than meantone, although those 9-limit
> intervals will occur in 7-limit music.

I recommend that when we discuss limits, we try always to
include the qualifier 'odd' or 'prime'. This statement is
confusing, and not entirely correct, because of their lack.

'9-limit' can only refer to 9-odd-limit, because 9 is not
a prime number; but both '5-limit' and '7-limit' may be
referring to either 'odd' or prime'.

Graham here means 7-prime-limit, because if '7-limit' meant
7-odd-limit, then, no, 9-(odd-)limit intervals would *not*
occur ( - at least not directly, *as* 9-odd-limit, but only
indirectly, as stacks of 3-odd-limit intervals).

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
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