> This whole field of research has always seemed hopelessly mired in a > priori assumptions and inadequate study design. I consider the people > who claim "scientific" basis for tonality to be the phrenologists of > modern musical scholarship. > > And don't get me started on the bloody prehistoric flute hoax. David Fenton
...or, for me, the derivation of the Western major scale from upper partials in the overtone series, e.g. "Subtonic Partials - The seventh and fourteenth partials are the out-of-tune subtonic degrees found in the third octave (7th partial) and fourth octave (14th partial) of a given series. It may help to think of the seventh partial as a simple interval to remember its scale degree although it is actually a minor 21st from the fundamental." Richard Yates _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
