... No pre-Zawose Wagogo recordings of extended JI exist, to my knowledge. I'd be more than happy to discover some. ... I have several recordings of pygmie...
... Well... :) I guess we should say, the earliest evidence of a musical form using septimal harmony seems to be for barbershop. Zawose was born in 1938, so...
Hello, I need some advise to tune my double flutes; if anybody likes to have a new puzzle. This is two melodic flutes, I play with one hand on each flute. Some...
... If you want F-C-G-D-A-E to be tuned by perfect fifths/fourths, and you also want F-D to be a just major sixth, then meantone tempering is probably your...
... I agree 100% with Ryan; it's obvious that meantone tempering is what you want. With just intonation it would be mathematically impossible to get most of...
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@...> ... Yeah, I agree with Keenan here. Also, if you want something a bit more xenharmonic,...
The chromatic tetrachord of Al Farabi can be demonstrated on a fretless instrument in this way: Play a pure fourth. Place a finger halfway between this fourth...
... In deed Carl, that agrees with the conservative point of view in that still ongoing controversy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/archytas/ See last...
Chances are if the holes are equally spaced apart, you have two subharmonic series. -- /^_,',',',_ //^/Kraig Grady_^_,',',',_ Mesotonal Music from: _'''''''_...
I made a YouTube video demoing what I think are some differences between musical feelings coming from scales/melody and musical feelings coming from harmony ...
Considering you are jamming at a speed that would make Satriani jealous with tons of staccato (impressive enough...sure)...it's hard to tell the emotion...
... For comparison, here's the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7G4DciALDs ... Error from what? ... What's the supposedly fundamental JI minor chord...
... Meaning a chord that sounds "off" (or very detuned) as a chord in harmony can be triggered more accurately in melody... That is when implied through a...
... Most of the stuff worked for me in harmony as well as melody. You could hear times when I played chords as well in the piece too, although I tried to focus...
... Oddly enough I just dropped in the other day for the first time in a long time. The piece was obviously concieved of with major/minor thinking, and...
As far as the Greeks actually using ratio based scales~ Freshman sums do not explain many of Ptolemy's scales which have high artistic value and are real...
... Yep Kraig, just that Archytas third-tone 28/27 (~63.0 cents) also sounds in my ears 'compelling' well in tune. Hence i have choosed it in my recent...
The scale sounds like some mistuned minor but there are lots of accidentals in the improv then. I think I might be able to possibly guess the corresponding...
... (These comments made before reading any of the comments on facebook. I will pop over there now and read / possibly respond to them.) Excellent playing and...
... Yeah, with my foot. I didn't expect it to come out as loud as it did. I made it unlisted because it's not really a song - I only want songs on my youtube...
... Well, it's conceived in Western thinking, whatever it is. The original is Sonny Rollins here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7G4DciALDs ... Doesn't...
... Yeah, I was playing a lot of bebop vocabulary, with chromaticism and such. Check out the Sonny Rollins link in my reply to Cameron. ... I promise you it...
Hi tuners. Once I figure this out, maybe I'll start finding completely new tetradic chord progressions -- but I don't want to start saying something in ...
... Three different interval sizes in each interval class. An example of such a thing is the 5-limit 7-tone diatonic. An analogy in the 2D field are scales...
... Most rank-3 Fokker blocks don't have your trivalence properly: rank-3 Fokker blocks tend to come in 4 sizes. You're looking for a special type of Fokker...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjoNHKx7GEI ... Well, it sounded good. ... Understandable. Maybe make a separate channel for theory talks? I know you like the...
... I think you meant 135/128. ... Corresponding to l-m, m-s, and l-s, in this particular case. You could equally well temper out "s" itself, for example. ... ...
You might look at the databases at: http://www.lucytune.com/scales/ and search for matching patterns in various fields. ... Charles Lucy lucy@... --...
