no, of course not.jancivil wrote:Ok, what do 'you' mean by:?bernhardtjeff wrote: what [ji] lacks ... it makes up for in its sensitivity to more simple melodic lines.
I meant, and I'll be concrete, is a vocal raga, or a Persian melody, et al, necessarily a simple line.
what i mean by what i said is that ji gives simple melodic lines that might be considered boring in et something interesting harmonically that et isn't capable of giving, i.e., the possibility to use intervals that produce more harmonically interesting results that aren't available in et. i guess you could sum this up as the conditional, "if it's a simple melodic line, ji can give it something harmonically interesting that et can't." how you got from that to something like "if it's a ji melody/line, then it must be simple" i don't know. you seem to be switching the antecedent to the consequent and then modifying the new antecedent in a way that makes it seem like i'm attacking ji, which i don't quite get.
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