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A leading Psychoacoustician wrote

"I had a look at "Harmonic Entropy" and was immediately put off by the
idea that intervals are frequency ratios (which ratio? most intervals
have two...) and Euler's idea of harmony, that in my view has no
physiological basis"

Most definitions of consonance do not require exact integer tunings,
only approximations.

-Kelly




Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:51 pm

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A leading Psychoacoustician wrote "I had a look at "Harmonic Entropy" and was immediately put off by the idea that intervals are frequency ratios (which ratio?...
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Dec 29, 2007
4:51 pm

... Hi Kelly, Who said this? It doesn't seem like they understand harmonic entropy very well. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Dec 29, 2007
4:59 pm

Believe me, a top source. I belive it's based, partly, on the work of Bloomslitter and Creel. All you have to do is look at the main papers in...
Kelly Johnson
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Dec 29, 2007
8:57 pm

... What is based on Boomlitter & Creel? ... I'm not familiar with such papers. Can you cite some examples? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Dec 29, 2007
9:18 pm

hi Carl. One reference to this issue occurs in Richard Parncutt's important 1988 "Revision of Terhardt's Psychoacoustical Model of the Root(s) of a musical...
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Dec 30, 2007
8:37 pm

Hi Kelly- ... There's nothing I can see here against harmonic entropy. ... "Tonal structure" sounds to me like it almost could be referring to functional...
Carl Lumma
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Dec 31, 2007
12:28 am

... We all know that certain properties hold for mistunings. That's the whole point of temperament. What you said is that the precise tuning doesn't matter....
Graham Breed
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