On 1 Jul 2008, at 18:33, josephHarfouch wrote:
Regarding
Hans' comment, the document explains how Arabic music is traditionally
notated which uses a 24 note system, although that might not
completely
reflect how the music is played, so the issue of alternative tone
systems is
a separate issue.
Although it may have the original intention to notate a 24-ET, it has
been long known it isn't:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Arab_music#More_notes_used_than_in_Western_scale
In Persian music, the symbols derives from Ali Naqi Vaziri, who
intended a 22-ET, but it is known it isn't. But the symbols he
invented are used today, then not referring to 22-ET.
So imposing 24-ET may lead to incorrect results also in notation when
transposing, also in notation, apart from the fact it does not sound
well in the MIDI files :-).
Hans Aberg
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