If the septimal kleisma of 225/224 is tempered out, the septimal kleismic augmented triad, 5/4-5/4-9/7, is a chord of ambiguous tonality. If the septimal...
Hi, I'd like to announce a new service for the microtonal music community I'm developing which should interest many of you. It's called Cacophonous.org and is...
... Oops! ... OK. ... OK, thanks. So how does your formula: y = exp(-x(t-0.1)) translate into something that would work in an Excel spreadsheet? IOW, to me...
Hi all, I normally host a classical music program on KGNU the fourth Sunday morning of each month (9-11am Mountain time), but this month I swapped shifts and...
... Interesting. It looks like it's ideal for 19-note meantone scales, but could also be adapted for other kinds of scale structures. Sort of like an extended...
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Neil Haverstick
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Jan 1, 2006 8:32 pm
Since Gene just mentioned 31, I wanted to make a comment...although I've had a 31 eq guitar for about 10 years, I haven't yet composed in it, but lately I've...
In this article: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/26848 Margo tells us that "Likewise Guillaume Costeley (1570) describes a system dividing...
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Neil Haverstick
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Jan 2, 2006 12:35 am
Ozan's post about the Turkish professor who is locked into a narrow view of tuning is a perfect example of how the human ego can be used as a force to promote...
And that's not all Neil... People here actually believe that a major and minor chords of common practice Western Music are Pythagorean by default! The lenght...
Ah, and one more thing... Prof. Salih Murat Uzdilek, who is remembered as the mathematical pillar of the Arel-Ezgi system was the first to suggest , in his...
Hi monz, ... You bet! :-) ... Any exponential time decay function will have the general form: y = a exp(-bt) Here a and b should be positive constants. With...
I'd like to put up a link to Ivor Darreg's Prelude No. 1 for guitar in the George Secor version on the 19 equal temperament article on Wikipedia; this could be...
... It seems a paper was presented titled "19-tET in a Renaissance Chanson by Guillaume Costeley", by Ralph Lorenz. I'll see if I can track him down....
Hi Yayha, ... Thanks for all the explanation of this. The problem with doing shorter samples is that the shorter the sample becomes, the lower the resolution. ...
... He read it at one of the Microfest conferences in Pomona, CA, in either 2000 or 2001. I attended, and have his paper somewhere. Sorry, too busy right now...
Hey Neil, I noticed a similar thing on Johnney Reinhard's excellent CD, "Early," which features Werckmeister III-tempered performances of music of the two...
Is this the wrong forum now to ask about historical temperaments? Did that split off, too? I put up a Q over a week ago and no response. Maybe all the...
I don't know if I'm the right one to answer this, but I think this article sums it up neatly: http://www.polettipiano.com/Media/pitch.PDF Oz. ... From: "David...
Herman, You might have explained this somewhere else, but could you go over the (to me) unfamiliar letter assignments you're using for Lemba below? Regards, ...
... The generator of lemba temperament divides the fifth into three equal parts. One step above D is a note slightly sharper than E, which could be labeled...
Does anyone have a theory as to what these two are, or should be, named? Huyghens-Fokker has lehmerisma down for their ratio, 3025/3025, but no name for them....
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Neil Haverstick
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Jan 3, 2006 1:42 am
BTW, speaking of Reinhard/Werckmeister, the CD "Early" got a nice mention in Stuart Isacoff's article on Temperament in the Winter edition of Early Music...
... 55/54 seems mainly to be associated with 11-limit porcupine, so perhaps a name from the porcupine family? Hystrix was used for a 7-limit temperament; other...
... Sphiggurus. Scary names. 55/54 is the ratio between a unidecimal neutral third and a minor third, if that helps any: (6/5)/(11/9) = 55/54. 56/55 is the ...
... I don't have a MIDI file that would be playable from the standard softsynths on PCs, but I could probably create a mp3 of a performance of mine of...
