Hi, Spurred on by my recent Python code for rational approximations, and wanting for some time to develop a well-temperament with 24/19 instead of 81/64 as a...
one of the great intangible treasures of the world ... ab Friends, I regret to report the passing of Hamza el-Din, ethnomusicologist and superb musician from...
... contained ... order to ... Arabic is ... maybe? ... of thing a ... From _The Turkish "Makam" System in Contemporary Theory and Practice_, Ph.D. ...
... Oh, that ban was lifted long ago: "Arabesk music dominates the Turkish pop scene. It is largely Arabic in origin, which led to condemnation from some...
... I met Karl Signell the day I delivered my 79-tone presentation. Such a tall guy! He was among the audience there with İlhami Gokcen from Canada who had ...
... Great! This scale is epimorphic in more than one way, so it's a nice example among other talents. It's also an authentic well-temperament, with no fifth...
... Splendid! I also need to ... http://www.turkmusikisi.com/nazariyat/sistemler/ekrem_karadeniz_sistemi.htm ... It is regrettable that alternative theories...
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-wk-partch1jun01,0,7362819.story a nice mention of my significant other Erin Barnes. She had Emil Richards walk up to her...
My dear brother Yahya, thank you so much for the praises! Truly, I wish that my humble enterprise creates a new impetus for the world of microtonality. I have...
... Hi Carl, Just checked out: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/SpecMus/ As you said, very low volume - almost moribund, I think! At such a low volume,...
... Equally glad to hear that some singable rational tunings are still of interest. As a builder of acoustic instruments, I have no one to blame but myself :)...
... It is either going to be an option in your browser somewhere, or else in your computer network settings. Look and see if you can find Preferences or ...
... "A". ... Hi, Well, I hadn't thought about it that way until you pointed it out.... ... My calculations indicate that we could change the 'A' to 191/114 and...
In editing the Wikipedia entry on Erv Wilson, I found the website of one of my favorite musicians... http://perfectbuzz.com (His old site went down years ago,...
... and ... George? ... higher ... So does that mean you would prefer the first version? How important to you theoretically (or even sonically--although with...
... hi! ... Hence it looks i.m.o. nearer to pythagorean than to syntonic, basing mostly on: http://tonalsoft.com/enc/x/xenharmonic-bridge.aspx " Eratosthenes...
... He's got some very exotic scales in there. One is a 7 note MOS for 21 steps out of 82, another looks like the 8 note MOS for 80&111, 68 notes out of 111 as...
... If I were to choose, yes. How important ... No importance whatever. But keeping the prime limit low only has the effect for me that when I run the "show...
I'm a 58-year-old Scottish-Welsh amateur pre-compositional music theorist and wanna-be composer currently located at Cal State Northridge, CA near Los Angeles....