On 11 Dec 2008, at 04:47, Graham Breed wrote:
Yes, but nobody agrees on what that intermediate pitch *is* do they? And Arab pop music really does use equally tempered synthesizers however much the purists may object.
It may in fact be even more complicated: the intermediate pitch (or absence thereof) may depend on the position it has in the scale, or rather which interval is divided.
In Persian music, following Farhat, the neutral second n is used to divide the minor third m3 := M + m = n + N, where is N is another large neutral, and the major third M3 := 2M = n + P, where P Farhat calls a plus-tone. These appear only in the patterns n N, n P, and n M N.
In Arab music, the divisions of M3 are often written m M#. This works in E12, but in E53, M# is rather large. So I suspect that the principle of gravity or attraction mentioned here
http://www.maqamworld.com/maqamat.html may draw the m M# division towards n P in E53. Hans _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
