From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Tue May 19 2009 - 13:58:52 CDT
On 19 May 2009, at 19:50, Thomas LAMBERT wrote:
> Well dozenal system can have practical uses like this particular case.
> With dozenal, the octave is at 10 semi tones which is really helpful
> as an C (Do) is still called an C at the octave
> It's a tool, no more no less.
Note that the "octave" is the interval numbered eight. The whole span
of the scale can also be called the "diapason". If you have twelve
scale degrees in a diapason, then that is the twelfth. Then music
treatment typically respects the scale degrees, so a 7 degree scale
typically implies a different musical treatment than one with twelve
scale degrees.
Hans
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