Fwd: ...general post to Tuning:... Corr. in last paragraph - "White Christmas" melody begins on E, not C; C is the tonic Re: Twinkletits in 23-EDO

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> From: Ralph Hill <ascend11@...>
> Date: June 11, 2011 10:04:35 PM PDT
> To: tuning@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Glasier <jonathan.sonicarts@...> >, Brink Mcgoogy <mahagoogy@...>, Elizabeth Glasier <glasier2@...> >, Joe Monzo <monzojoe@...>
> Subject: This is a general post to Tuning not specifically > directed: JI based "body of thought" on musical pitch & > harmony. Re: Twinkletits in 23-EDO
>
> " Sending 10:25 PM PDT Sat. June 11th, 2011
>
> Hello -
>
> I used to be active posting to the Tuning List about 10 years ago > but have since then gotten to being much less active, and have > contributed posts much less frequently.
>
> However I've been developing a fairly specific system for > organizing the pitch/harmonic side of music one is studying or > composing which I believe has value and deserves the attention of > musicians (composers, teachers, music lovers)....... "
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> I hope some will give me the benefit of their thoughts as to the > suitability of my getting a draft of my thoughts on an organized way > of thinking about musical pitch/harmony which could form a > replacement (or core of a replacement) for the current compound of > common practice quarter comma mean tone systematization confusingly > subposed beneath the 12 equal pitch step per octave 20th century > piano tuning system which makes no distinction (the latter) between > the 24/25 frequency ratio chromatic semitone (eg E-flat to E) and > the 15/16 frequency ratio diatonic semitone found in the step E to > F. THINK OF THE MELODY STARTING ON C FOR "I'M DREAMING OF A WHITE > CHRISTMAS"

> Melody starts on E, not C. C is tonic.

> - the upward step between the 1st and 2nd note of the melody > (diatonic semitone) and the downward step between the 3rd and 4th > notes of the melody (chromatic semitone) (or upward again between > the 4th and 5th notes of the melody (again chromatic semitone)).
>
> Best wishes, Ralph David Hill