--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Walker"
<robertwalker@n...> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've just written a sad tune in a symmetrical septimal
> minor scale (does it have a special name, anyone know?)
>
> The scale is:
>
> 1/1 8/7 7/6 4/3 3/2 12/7 7/4 2/1
>
> and the tune is here as a midi clip:
>
> http://www.tunesmithy.netfirms.com/tunes/tunes.htm#sad_septimal_minor
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
David Canright has a melodic-harmonic diagram of this scale here:
Hi there, I've just written a sad tune in a symmetrical septimal minor scale (does it have a special name, anyone know?) The scale is: 1/1 8/7 7/6 4/3 3/2 12/7...
Hi Jim, ... Rightio, thanks. I suppose the scale I used has a pentatonic feel to it with the second and minor third so close to each other as to be almost...
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... It, and your description below, reminds me a lot of a 'diatonic' scale in 22-equal formed from a chain of (wide) fifths -- particularly in the aeolian...
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Hi Kraig, ... Rightio - I see he has it listed there as one of the scales. I've just looked up in Google to find out about him, rather a nice story here: ...
Dear Robert and everyone, Thank you for that septimal minor or more specifically Dorian scale, which I've tried and find gives a special rationale for a JI...
Margo Schulter
mschulter@...
May 18, 2004 12:39 am
Dear Margo, and everyone, Thanks for your example of a pythagorean scale with septimal commas to achieve Al Farabi's very septimal Dorian scale as one of the...
... Hi Robert, This is one of the most fascinating posts I've seen in a long time. Would you mind getting a bit deeper on all this on one of the more ...
Hi Paul (continued from MakeMicroMusic, see end of: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/6700 ) ... The curves are maybe best explained ...
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Hi Paul, Rightio, I've posted a reply to tuning and then it can be followed up wherever. ... Sorry everyone - I have just posted it to MMM instead by mistake...
Hi Paul, ... Yes, I think so. Made by stacking e.g. sine curves, or also other curves such as rounded saw tooth etc into a harmonic series of pitches with the...
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