[PW] Re: music terms

[Simon Cauchi]

On 9/01/2007, at 3:53 PM, Nina Gilbert wrote:

>  I'm not sure if I've ever seen the terms "sextal," "septal," or 
> "octal."  They could be hypothetical, as on this Web page:  
> http://www.afn.org/~afn54096/mus-theor/Intro.html
> -- but "octal" doesn't make sense in any case.

Just from the point of view of word-formation shouldn't the last two be 
"septimal" and "octaval"? These adjectives are based on the Latin 
ordinals, no?

Simon Cauchi
<simon.cauchi at xtra.co.nz>