Re: onelist 303-8 ... Pith. comma is one skhisma higher than Didymus comma (81/80), and Didymus comma is one Skhisma higher than the Diaskhisma (2048/2025). ...
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Paul Hahn
Paul-Hahn@xxxxxxx.xxx...
Sep 8, 1999 7:46 pm
... Eduardo, your computer's clock seems to be about four months fast. (A message from last month had the same problem.) Were you checking for Y2K...
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John Starrett
jstarret@xxxx.xxxxxxx...
Sep 8, 1999 8:10 pm
I just received an email directing me to a site http://www.traxinspace.com where you can download music from independent artists in different formats, one...
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Chris Miller
vogonpoet@xxxxxxxxxxx...
Sep 8, 1999 9:10 pm
Hi John, I'm a tracker artist, and have been for about 10 years, they are wonderful peices of software, most of which are free, that work as virtual samplers....
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Paul H. Erlich
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Sep 8, 1999 9:22 pm
Margo Schulter wrote, ... Also 1/3-comma meantone with its pure minor thirds; and less significantly, 1/5-comma meantone (pure 15:8s), 1/6-comma meantone (pure...
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Paul H. Erlich
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Sep 8, 1999 9:27 pm
Leigh Smith wrote, ... Ara's friend has hundreds of CD featuring the Turkish saz and the Armenian tar, fretted instruments. It is quite clear that it is not a...
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Paul H. Erlich
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Sep 8, 1999 9:37 pm
Dan Stearns wrote, ... I was going to give the same example! Another one is my 22-tET blues scale, which is JI is: 1/1 6/5 4/3 27/20 3/2 9/5 (2/1), where the...
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Paul H. Erlich
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Sep 8, 1999 9:43 pm
Leigh Smith wrote, ... Oops -- I was thinking "fixed-pitch", which of course the saz and tar are, but they are not "fixed fret" since the frets are movable....
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Wim Hoogewerf
wim.hoogewerf@xxxx.xxxx
Sep 8, 1999 9:46 pm
For general information: I will participate with my quartertone guitar on a Czech EURORADIO concert with 20th century Microtonal Compositions ('Alois Haba, his...
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Luzius Lanrai
luzius223@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 9, 1999 2:17 am
... Thank you Dan, that is a good example. I had thought of the "gypsy minor" as your scale sometimes is called, but not this J.I. interpreting. There are many...
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Rosati
dante@xxx.xxxxxxxxx.x...
Sep 9, 1999 2:21 am
... From: Øyonn Groven Myhren <o.g.myhren@...> To: dante@... <dante@...> Date: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 5:21 PM ...
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D.Stearns
stearns@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 9, 1999 6:27 am
[Paul H. Erlich:] ... 27/20 3/2 9/5 (2/1), where the three step sizes are 81:80 (really small in JI), 10:9, and 6:5. I think that this is an interesting...
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Robert C Valentine
bval@xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxx...
Sep 9, 1999 10:40 am
I recall (though I should check at a store) that keyboards sold in the middle-east have an extra button for flattenning the whole keyboard by a quarter-tone....
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Joe Monzo
monz@xxxx.xxxx
Sep 9, 1999 2:41 pm
... Paul, thanks for a great post adding to Margo's excellent article. Wouldn't you also say that well-temperaments are constructed as systems 'where all...
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Leigh Smith
leigh@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 9, 1999 6:08 pm
Paul H. Erlich wrote, ... Armenian ... Ok, I play saz and that is fretted with nylon or gut frets that are tied on around the neck and movable. Every saz of...
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Leigh Smith
leigh@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 9, 1999 6:20 pm
... tar are, ... Persian pop ... The films I have seen of Mohammed Abdel Wahab's (the Ennio Morricone of Egypt) ensembles used standard 12TET guitars, but it's...
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Carl Lumma
clumma@xxx.xxxx
Sep 9, 1999 7:28 pm
Paul Hahn, can you tell us any more about which of these scales would be good to focus on? 3-3-4- 3-5-3- 4-3-3 3-4-3- 3-5-3- 4-3-3 4-3-3- 5-3-3- 4-3-3 4-4-2-...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Sep 9, 1999 8:57 pm
Robert C Valentine wrote, ... Um, I don't think the interval between 7/6 and 4/3 is 9:8....
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Sep 9, 1999 9:16 pm
Wim Hoogewerf wrote, ... I believe this is the piece that was written in "fifth-tones" and inspired by Fokker -- if I am correct, it is in fact in 31ET and not...
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Paul H. Erlich
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Sep 9, 1999 9:33 pm
... I ckecked out this website and Aha! Groven actually used 1/8-schisma temperament, extended to 36 notes! Funny how the threads in this list tend to cross!...
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D.Stearns
stearns@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 10, 1999 1:01 am
[Luzius Lanrai:] ... same cardinality as diatonic scale i.e. 7, and are difficultly approximate by 12-tone equal. One thing that quickly jumps to mind, and...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Sep 9, 1999 10:12 pm
I remember, years ago, reading the New Grove entry on microtonality, to find one composer listed as using 171-tone equal temperament. My best recollection was...
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Wim Hoogewerf
wim.hoogewerf@xxxx.xxxx
Sep 9, 1999 10:37 pm
... Paul, I think you're correct. The piece is announced as being in fifth-tone system. I translated the information simply into 30ET to respect the vocabulary...
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DWolf77309@xx.xxx
Sep 9, 1999 11:18 pm
I was in the northern German town of Kiel last week for a small festival celebrating the tenth and final year of the "Gesellschaft für akustische ...
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D.Stearns
stearns@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 10, 1999 2:22 am
Luzius, Though I'm pretty sure you'll get what I was trying to getting at, the second example I gave (for an 11-note scale with step sizes falling into three...
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DWolf77309@xx.xxx
Sep 9, 1999 11:31 pm
I have a copy of the score. It's definitely in 31tet but Haba's non-thematic style and absence of a cohesive harmonic technique doesn't allow him to take much...
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Jon Wild
wild@xxx.xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 9, 1999 11:43 pm
Hi, can anyone come up with a rational "interpretation" of the following 11-note subset of 31-equal--or even any rotation of it? 0, 3, 6, 10, 13, 14, 17, 20,...
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Ken Locarnini
nunativs@xxx.xxxx
Sep 9, 1999 11:57 pm
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D.Stearns
stearns@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Sep 10, 1999 4:44 am
Earlier I wrote: "1/1, 13/12, 7/6, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, 13/8, 7/4, 15/8, 2/1, with five step sizes falling into three general size-categories." As you would have to...
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Zhang2323@xxx.xxx
Sep 10, 1999 2:26 am
I am interested in any recommedations of CDs using fractal-like / self-similar scales... especially recent music directly influenced by fractal geometry &...
