Please, Ed? I'm lost now. And I want the name of that basic book, too,
please.
Mitzy
mitzy@rosenet.net
EMARGERUM@mecn.mass.edu wrote:
>
> Date sent: 11-JAN-1997
>
> While I somewhat understand pitch and the modern scale, I am
> profoundly ignorant about early music scales, modality and temperment.
> Can anyone recommend a book which makes this complex subject
> simple?...Some sort of Chromatic, Diatonic and Enharmonic modes for
> Dummies?
>
> I see folk harps which are said to be tuned chromatically and
> diatonically, yet never see any tuned enharmonically. Yet some older
> works claim that Scottish and Irish music used an enharmonic scale.
> Is this true? Does anyone tune their harp enharmonically? Remember
> that I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about?
>
> Ed Margerum
> emargerum@mecn.mass.edu
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