Josep M Comajuncosas wrote:
>This is an interesting thread... some people talk about the expressive
superiority
>of tonal music based on its "natural" basis.

13 tone scales that have more congruence with the harmonic series than 12
tone.

>Though difficult to prove, maybe we
>think something is natural just because we´ve been always used to it.

Mabe difficult to prove, but look at the backlash towards: stravinsky,
antiorp, etc.

>We as composers do require a socially "accepted" basis
>to make our music understandable (even by ourselves), this basis is always
>extended thancks to composers who deny the preexisting rules ...


Rules only exist in the minds of the pedagogy and [software synthesis]
language designers.

Ross.