> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:17:04 EDT
> From: Jonathan Chang <Zhang2323@...>
> A lot of musics in the world do not conform to Western (Eurocentric)
> concepts of musical terminology & analysis: so terms such as "equal
> tempered", "Just Intonation", "octave", etc. are badly placed labels/handles
> on which some still insist on using to describe "other musics".
Are there actually intonation systems out there where you don't have
any pitches in a 2:1 ratio at all? All the systems that I have seen
described repeated themselves after an octave, but that may be an
artifact of the descriptions --- and of course I haven't seen all
systems.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)