Re: virus: Nursery Rhyme Memes
B. Lane Robertson (metaphy@hotmail.com)
Wed, 05 Aug 1998 15:57:50 PDT
Going out on a limb, I suggest that the evolution
of a note according to a "step" pattern
(1,1,.5,1,1,1,.5) could imply the evolution of
*any* idea as, first, itself (1); then a
redundancy (1), thus the dichotomy (.5), the
similar one (1), the different one (1), the whole
difference between (1), and so the resolution
(.5). This is a "seventh son" generational chart
(like the biblical prophecy which suggested the
birth of Jesus... that is, seventh son of a
seventh son-- which would be a .5 *resolution*
"redundant"... or self-reflexive "word become
flesh" [except in this case, a note become
embodied?]).
Anyway, as a pattern organization; the scale
structure would seem to be an organization which
is "productive" as far as being both repetitive
and "levelled" (as the same note becomes "another"
note at the next octave). So, I would agree that
the scale would be a pattern; but, still wonder
what central idea is being replicated?
B. Lane Robertson
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