Re: Descending aug and dim intervals

"Steve Latham" <llatham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Tom K." <tkorth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> This makes a bunch of assumptions - for instance, that the unison
itself 
>>> is considered a "distance".
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>> The "distance" is zero - how do you diminish zero?
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> Well, in math, they do a lot of strange things - you can't "really" have

> the square root of a negative number, so they have "imaginary" numbers.
I 
> guess this would be an "imaginary interval" !

Imagine that!

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>> Why?  You can have more than nothing, but how can you have less than 
>> nothing?
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> -1 is less than nothing. You can't "have" it, but you can be in that 
> state.

As an interval?

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>>> The practicality of such would be pretty meaningless in almost any 
>>> context I can think of though. It's kind of like saying -1 = 1-2. It 
>>> does, but either way you're left in debt!
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>> But is debt  a musical analog?
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> Lets say if you measure musicians in debt, I'm at least a triply 
> diminished unison!

Last time I looked at AAUP's figures, average US college salaries for Fine

Arts faculty were either 15th or 16th out of 16 disciplines - so I'm not
at 
all surprised!   But is that triply diminished prime ascending or
descending 
.....

Tom