Re: Descending aug and dim intervals

"paramucho" <paramucho@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:49:11 -0400, "Tom K."
> <tkorth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"paramucho" <paramucho@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> While we can use the terms "ascending" and "descending" to help
>>> picture the notes, intervals are always reckoned from the low pitch to
>>> the high pitch (with the obvious exception for the unison).
>>>
>>
>>Not following you here, Ian.  An interval is just a measured distance
>>whether reckoned up or down.  By the same token, if I'm driving from New
>>York to Miami, am I supposed to measure the mileage from south to north
>>instead of the north-south route I'm actually traveling?  And will the
>>results differ depending on which method I use?
>
> I was catapulting myself back to the debate we had in the earlier
> thread and skipping ahead to the kind of problems which can occur with
> attempts to form things such as a diminished unison.
>
> What I meant to say was that the direction is irrelevant, it's the
> absolute difference between the notes that counts. There are a couple
> of tricky situations which are best handled by proceeding in an
> orderly manner, i.e. by always reckoning up from the lowest *pitch*,
> not necessarily *note name*, or always reckoning down from the highest
> pitch.
>
> Ian

Agreed - although I sometimes enjoy "proceeding in a disorderly manner", 
even though it usually gets me into trouble with my wife!

Tom K.