I have an interesting idea that somebody here might find worthwhile to explore more. Using the Stern-Brocott tree you can delineate the range of Just Intonated...
You can indeed produce microtonal intervals on a guitar without removing or repositioning the frets. As with any stringed instrument you can adjust the open...
... Yes, it's the harmonic mean of 1/4 and 1/3 - so it's adjusted to have the best compromise, in a sense, between major thirds and minor thirds. When Zarlino...
... Plenty of musicians do, but there may not be a niche of performers dedicated to such music. If there were, I suppose the clock notation could be used, ...
... Ok. Glad we got the terminology worked out. ... // ... Yup. ... Yes! ... Yes, but historically the assumption seems to have been 'shifts obviously aren't...
... A good question. In my mind we have to consider how much we work with existing notation that people already have learned. If we throw that out the...
... <http://www.esnips.com/doc/0582de0d-378e-43b7-8f1c-e10d1a8520cc/hamilton-jupiter.mp3> Doesn't let me download; instead it tries to coerce me into...
... Ramis) ... Judging by what gets mentioned--1/4, 2/7 and 1/3 comma--a flat fifth somewhere in the range from 19 to 31 equal seems indicated, but that's ...
... Just a note - I haven't been using "shift" and "drift" in this thread interchangeably. Drift is by definition a change in the tonic. I think your last...
Hi Carl and Graham .The second paragraph showed how to seed the tree with ET fractions of an octave: "if we seed two trees with fractions of an octave at 0/2...
... <daniel_anthony_stearns@...> wrote: I think it would be clearer if you didn't talk of "seeding", and looked at it as simply the Stern-Brocot tree depending...
... Carl, I fully understand the difference. In all of the musical circumstances I'm referencing, I've had NO shift OR drift of a tonic chord. What I mean is...
... Aaron, shift does not refer to the pitch of a chord root, but to comma jumps between successive (or nearly successive) common tones between chords. If all...
... The boundries are set by the root of the tree, for example 7/12. Nothing further is needed. If you go up, 7/12 lies between 4/7 and 3/5, and this seems to...
Hello, everyone. Lately I've been re-examining Paul Erlich's pajara scale system, and I've become curious about the origin of the name "pajara". A search...
well i think it's important to see the 5 and 7 bounds in the context more than their mean, but let's say it's two ways to say the same thing; because I'm not...
... Ok, I follow all that. But to me, drift had the connotation of a change over time. I thought of drift as what happens when held notes are kept steady in...
... "Double diatonic" was the term being used at the time for what later became known as "injera" (named after a kind of Ethiopian bread). The ... "Paultone"...
... 'Tis true. The degree of fusion is so great I don't think shifts are as bothersome. Not that I was ever bothered a whole lot by them, myself. -Carl...
Robert Rich had an article in 1/1, where he tuned the open strings 1 - 6 to 5/6 3/4 4/6 5/8 1/2 3/8. He then had a major scale using the first 5 harmonics. ...
this is basically the method Yasser explains equal temperment going from 5 to 7 to 12 and his proposed 19. Kornerup when for the gold of this series -- Kraig...
hi kraig.it's actually quite different, but i guess i'm having a hard time to get that across! But I'll try to post more tonight after work as i think you...
Hi Members, It's been awhile since I last posted a message. Hope all are well. I have a question please... What is in the mind of a "scale builder" when he/she...
... <daniel_anthony_stearns@...> wrote: But what interests me is ... An observation one might make is that picking on a "border" generator like 7/12 is rather...
Hi Walter, A few random thoughts in response to your question: Some scales aren't designed, they evolve over time in a musical culture. Later they may be...
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