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78905
Michael~ We will have to agree that at this point we are talking about the things that are subjective. I will stand that Indian music can produced as much or...
Kraig Grady
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Nov 1, 2008
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78906
"There are several condensed references on the subject I can recommend. That is, if you're interested." Ah, Yes I feel like coach Dennis Green.  "We are who...
Joseph Bernard
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Nov 1, 2008
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78907
Dear Kraig, You are wonderful and I love 'ya, but I believe you are biased (although you call it subjective). All the composers you quote are American...
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Nov 1, 2008
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78908
... <snip> ... <snip> ... <snip> ... LucyTuning is fine. You imply cover bands above. To get standards right the obvious thing is to go for a meantone....
Graham Breed
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Nov 1, 2008
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78909
Kraig,    I agree much of this is subjective.  I am just saying JI is far from the only way to skin this cat and I am all for people who suspect, like I do,...
Michael Sheiman
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Nov 1, 2008
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78910
... Right, so start with Helmholtz's book (already mentioned): http://books.google.com/books?id=x_A5AAAAIAAJ Then you can tackle Sethares' book: ...
Carl Lumma
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Nov 1, 2008
7:34 pm
78911
... // ... All pitched instruments do. ... If the mallet-based instrument in question is pitched (through the use of a resonator tuned to one of its prominent ...
Carl Lumma
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Nov 1, 2008
8:09 pm
78912
... I found searching for "carol krumhansl dissonance" on Google Books gives a good result for musical dissonance. Her work (I forget if it's this book in...
Graham Breed
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Nov 2, 2008
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78913
... I remembered that wrong. A is on the wider spaced frets, but with near quarter-comma meantone they still end up too close to play it comfortably. So one...
Graham Breed
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Nov 2, 2008
2:21 am
78914
Carl, ... (through the use of a resonator tuned to one of its prominent partials, etc. etc.), it'll sound great when those pitches are related by simple...
Michael Sheiman
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Nov 2, 2008
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78915
Hi Michael, ... Using pure sines to make music in 10-ET does NOT guarantee an absence of beating or other critical band effects, if that's what you meant by...
Carl Lumma
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Nov 2, 2008
8:16 am
78916
You are wonderful and I love 'ya too johnny . If you say you are aJI composer, i mill go along with that. -- /^_,',',',_ //^ /Kraig Grady_ ^_,',',',_ Mesotonal...
Kraig Grady
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Nov 2, 2008
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78917
I would say that Wyschnegradsky, Carrillo, Herf and Fokker are at least as well known as Partch, Harrison, Johnston, especially in Europe and Mexico. JI is...
John H. Chalmers
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Nov 2, 2008
3:21 pm
78918
You make a couple of very perceptive points in this posting Carl, which trigger ideas which had never occurred to me before. Your mention of distinguishing...
Charles Lucy
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Nov 2, 2008
4:16 pm
78919
... A perfect example of what I'm talking about is at the top of this page: http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/html/soundexamples.html The four "simptun"...
Carl Lumma
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Nov 2, 2008
4:27 pm
78920
Graham, thank you very much for your detailed answer. I apologize that I can only give a grateful, rather than informed, response. I am going to keep reading...
Jack
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Nov 2, 2008
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78921
It was filmed in Carrillo's hometown of Ahualulco, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Directed by Mario Mendoza and edited by Patricio Hinojosa, in Spanish with English...
Danny Wier
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Nov 2, 2008
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78922
... absence of beating or other critical band effects, if that's what you meant by "harmonic conflicts".    I meant that having individual sine waves placed...
Michael Sheiman
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78923
   Exactly...again far as the "consonance formula" says the stretched and non-stretched examples are equivalent in terms of consonance...but the is something...
Michael Sheiman
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Nov 2, 2008
10:04 pm
78924
Hi Michael! ... Indeed. ... ...but still well within the critical band throughout much of the traditional musical pitch range. ... I can certainly agree with...
Carl Lumma
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Nov 2, 2008
10:57 pm
78925
... Well, I'll claim the gap has been identified. It's due to the fact that the brain's virtual pitch processor has not been triggered as strongly by the...
Carl Lumma
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11:12 pm
78926
yeah, i saw this a while back too danny, and i was going to post a link as well as i'm a big fan.but i don't know, i just didn't think it was very good i...
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Nov 2, 2008
11:24 pm
78927
... It was an ultra-low budget project obviously, but I would've put more than 15 minutes into it, and made it less of a documentary on Carrillo's hometown. ...
Danny Wier
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Nov 3, 2008
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78928
... *chords*, which are presented to a listener after a long period of silence.      Hmm...so then sensory consonance = contrast with other parts IE...
Michael Sheiman
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Nov 3, 2008
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78929
... evolution and/or early learning as infants) to pick out harmonic spectra specifically (since that's what human voices have).    Interesting...so it's...
Michael Sheiman
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Nov 3, 2008
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78930
     Continuing on Carl's point that the harmonic scale is the only one he has heard of where virtually all notes sound good with any combination of any...
Michael Sheiman
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Nov 3, 2008
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78931
... This statement is equal to the hypothesis that a sawtooth wave is less dissonant than a sine wave -- under what definition of consonance and dissonance is...
Mike Battaglia
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Nov 3, 2008
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78932
... No, the exact opposite actually. I said resolve/unresolved had to do with musical consonance. Sensory consonance pertains to chords in complete and utter...
Carl Lumma
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Nov 3, 2008
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78933
... The 0th harmonic is 0Hz which in most cases represents silence. The 1st harmonic is the fundamental. ... To me they don't. ... I think this has something...
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78934
... I think that what Michael is saying has some meaning as well. There is the cultural level of what is considered "appropriate" for the blues and classical...
Mike Battaglia
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