Owain, It's a different theoretical model. Of course it's "wrong" according to the standard theoretical model -- it's an alternative theory of tonality, modality, harmony, etc. If it didn't reject the norms of the standard model it wouldn't be an alternative theory, would it?
- Darcy That, in a nutshell, is what's wrong w. most music theory. If I say "A is derived from B," I am making a historical statement: A came first, and B both came later and had its origins provably in A. You can't just set up any old system and consider it equally valid with any other system ahistorically. Similarly, if I make a general statement RE the nature of scales, then the truth of my statement is testable against the behavior of actually existing scales and is not purely arbitrary. And when we get into such very broad musical phenomena as scales, questions of human nature become involved, and these too cannot be ignored if one wishes to be taken seriously. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.netcom.com/~kallisti _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
