[Smt-talk] whether to laugh or cry?

[Richard Cohn]

David Byrne's best-selling book "How Music Works", on the front-table in
many book-stores, has a quasi-learned discourse, with dutiful refs. to
Pythagoras etc., on "diachronic scales."

My best guess:
^1 sounds in the 14th century;
^2 sounds in the 15th century
.....the 20th century has the leading tone
and here we are now on the tonic. Finally.

Which makes them maximally even, as they should be.

--Rick Cohn
Yale University
richard.cohn at yale.edu
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