Re: Hypertonality?

On 5 Mar, 01:46, Jack Campin - bogus address <bo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> >> Anyone ever encountered Hypertonality, or Hypotonality (as terms,
> >> not as hyperactive key changes in a piece :-).
> > Hypertonality means having quarter tone intervals, so there are 34
> > tones per octave, tuned in just intonation. This scale is derived from
> > generating a harmonic series on each successive pitch in a single
> > harmonic series taken from a chosen fundamental.
>
> That doesn't make any discernible sense. =A0Quartertones are
incompatible
> with both 34 tones to the octave and with just intonation.

I agree that 12 TET quarter-tones are incompatible with the notion of
34 tones to the octave - but a quarter tone is (by definition) a
quarter of one tone. So if you alter the definition of a 'tone' you
alter the definition of what a quarter of a tone is.