Steve Haflich <[email protected]>wrote: > Common interval nomenclature makes no sense. > I must disagree entirely. The arithmetic you use is simply the only counting system you are consciously familiar with. > > We musicians are so familiar with intervals that we need not and do not > use arithmetic to calculate compound intervals relations.
AH! So, you ARE familiar with this alternative counting system. You merely don't recognise it as such. :-) BTW I'm no linguist but I suspect "Unison" derives from "the number 1" plus "sound" viz. one sound, the same sound, which describes it perfectly. Simple Simon _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
