Tuners, I've put a new piece up on my SoundClick web site. It's based on a set of major and minor chords in the Partch tonality diamond. To hear the music, go...
Hi Katsura, sorry to be late with this reply. I'm from Italy, so maybe I could help you with your doubt. I made a quick search on the telephone directory of...
Hi Paul. Sorry to drag you into the rudiments, but I couldn't find the answer after studying a Benade text. Concerning the 'acoustical energy' of maj 7th...
I'm starting to get the impression that selecting smaller scales from an MOS or DE scale by skipping steps in a symmetrical manner can result in some useful...
Hello Herman! This whole train of thought is exactly how i come up with most of my pitch material. Double layers of patterns, are IMHO the best. I have ben...
Well, if no one has any decapitated flats, I'll try some sagittal. Questio= ns come to mind:
1. For notating pieces in ETs that change from section to...
... generators. ... reason ... Hi, I just got back from Texas. Anyway, if you give me your proposed names for the 21 5-limit and 29 7-limit temperaments that...
Extraordinary! Thanks for sharing that, Prent, and keep up the fantastic work! (I'm sure there'll be more to say on MakeMicroMusic . . .) ... set ... some ... ...
... the 'acoustical ... Hi Kelly, I should have said 'first order difference tones'. At loud volumes, nonlinearities in the ear will create frequencies that...
... from a ... this ... Lots of people have discussed these, for example Mats Oljare, who called them 2nd order MOS or something like that. ... Indeed. One can...
... Paul seems to be off doing something else for the time being, but I had a few spare moments and figured this out. The chord could be spelled as: C : E :...
It seems easier just to spell your tetrads as 8-10-12-15 and then figure out the difference tones. being 2,2,3,4,5,7. The system i use to judge the con/dis ...
Thanks Paul. Also, on some notation I'm unfamiliar with... when you compared the chords 4:5:6:7 and 1/7, 1/6, 1/5, and 1/4 , what is the actual chord spelling...
Hi Kurt/Paul ...I got the math...but wanted to confirm what the actual difference tone notes are. (I'm comp/performer background). (I'm assuming each interval...
... you ... the ... I don't know what you mean by "actual chord spelling". ... Yes, the latter chord has been referred to as a "subharmonic" or "utonal" chord....
... series, ... I don't know what you mean by that question. ... actual ... Five out of six. The last one, C1, is wrong, since that would be 1/8 instead of...
hi Paul - (I'm referring to a tonalsoft excerpt which, according to Joe's indendation, is from one of your postings, which reads "Our non- laboratory...
... If you've got a piano that will do that, you're lucky. If your piano is tuned to 12et it probably won't do that so well. ... However, in that case it will...
... non- ... close ... ranking ... Yes. ... Well, that's as close as you can get to it on the piano, but of course it's still very different, since pianos are...
I'm looking for meantone scales in the Scala archive with the octave stretched so that the tempered fifth is closer to the just fifth. I found two. One was...
... 4.39016 ... And what ... The second is an example of TOP tuning, a huge thread you may have missed. TOP tuning can be applied to regular temperaments in...
... sagittal. Questions come to ... Hi Jacob, I'll do my best to answer them. ... my "Moods" ... I think so, but then I might be biased. :-) I'm hoping you...
