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15664
hi again, gene you mentioned in a post that it was not a good idea to try building scales from a selection of primes rather than all primes < p, why is that? ...
tfllt
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Sep 3, 2006
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15665
... i meant to say previous note...
tfllt
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Sep 3, 2006
8:39 am
15666
there is some stuff on diamonds () here http://anaphoria.com/lamb.PDF and http://anaphoria.com/dia.PDF more important than epimorphic intervals is to fill in...
Kraig Grady
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Sep 3, 2006
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15667
... It's a perfectly fine idea, but not if you want superparticular ratio steps, where you will run into problems. ... That is the square numerator form, the...
Gene Ward Smith
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Sep 4, 2006
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15668
... close to ... Epimorphic implies constant structure. Epimorphic is a good condition on JI scales, and requires a more coherent scale structure than simply ...
Gene Ward Smith
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Sep 4, 2006
11:56 pm
15669
These are more numerous than I thought they would be. Some examples: [7/6, 4/3, 3/2, 7/4, 2] [9/8, 9/7, 4/3, 3/2, 14/9, 7/4, 2]...
Gene Ward Smith
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Sep 5, 2006
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15670
... i have found quite a lot of superparticular scales being selective with the primes, just not many of them make complete diamonds. ... have? ... okay. well...
tfllt
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Sep 5, 2006
7:49 am
15672
The positive integers form a commutative monoid under multiplication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoid That is, there is a product which is commutative and...
Gene Ward Smith
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Sep 8, 2006
2:24 am
15673
Hey just an update of what I have been doing â€" Noticed that the 9 lim diamond can be achieved by the addition of the five different linear arrangements of...
tfllt
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Sep 14, 2006
1:10 pm
15674
... here is a .scl file note u may need to tweak depending on how much range ur keyboard has! it has 2 octaves for each harmonic space and goes backward from...
tfllt
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Sep 14, 2006
1:18 pm
15675
this is cheating - any diamond made of 5 elements you can call a pentatonic. although i see no reason not just to take pentatonics and make diamonds out of...
Kraig Grady
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Sep 14, 2006
5:02 pm
15676
i dont understand what u are saying? the diamond has 19 tones, not 5 how is it cheating? who is it cheating? i am trying to say the 9lim diamond can be...
tfllt
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Sep 14, 2006
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15677
you say that you have a pentatonic scale generating a diamond. well a pentatonic by definition has 5 notes, how is this significant. couldn't this be said of...
Kraig Grady
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Sep 14, 2006
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15678
... what do you mean by diamond made of 5 elements? ... yes of course ... i didnt realise this was how partch formed it but it makes sense if u rotate a series...
tfllt
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Sep 14, 2006
6:22 pm
15679
by 5 elements in the sense that you can have you can make a diamond out of any 5 harmonics or interval one chooses or likes the sound of. they needn't be...
Kraig Grady
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Sep 14, 2006
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15680
... the same process applied to say the superparticular pentatonic (8/7)^2, (7/6)^2, 9/8, wont work. it has to be ascending superparticular intervals to...
tfllt
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Sep 14, 2006
6:40 pm
15681
... out ... right. can this double dekany be mapped in a similar way? do u have an .scl file? i still dont get why u say i am 'cheating'...
tfllt
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Sep 14, 2006
7:00 pm
15682
... I get 40 such pentatonic scales, as follows: [9/8, 10/9, 6/5, 8/7, 7/6] [9/8, 5/4, 3/2, 12/7, 2] [10/9, 6/5, 7/6, 8/7, 9/8] [10/9, 4/3, 14/9, 16/9, 2] ...
Gene Ward Smith
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Sep 15, 2006
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15683
... In general, (n+1)/n * (n+2)/(n+1) * ... * 2n/(n-1) = 2. The ratios between these give the commas (n+1)^2/((n+1)^2-1) .... (2*n-1)^2/((2*n-1)^2-1). If n is...
Gene Ward Smith
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Sep 15, 2006
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15684
hey gene what i meant by linear rotations, was if u take the 6/5, 7/6, 8/7, 9/8, 10/9 as a circle and take each from a different starting point; that gives u 5...
tfllt
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Sep 15, 2006
5:23 am
15685
yup i realised this was the case however the 9lim diamond seems to be the best option without getting other primes involved...
tfllt
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Sep 15, 2006
5:25 am
15686
these pentatonics oscillate (measure the periodic waveform of playing the whole scale as a chord) at the following ratios 6/5, 7/6, 8/7, 9/8, 10/9 -> 1/5 7/6,...
tfllt
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Sep 15, 2006
11:59 am
15687
... Oh? How's that done, exactly? I saw your .scl file, which looked a little bit odd to me. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Sep 16, 2006
4:05 am
15688
... hi there carl the keyboard mapping works like this, for each octave of the piano there is two octaves of a pentatonic scale they go in this order 8/7 * 9/8...
tfllt
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Sep 16, 2006
6:53 am
15689
... You lost me. Are all four octaves the same, and if so can you show one of them? ... Which keys are those? ... Huh? ... I don't typically think of them...
Carl Lumma
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Sep 16, 2006
7:17 am
15690
... there are *five* distinct pentatonic modes to the 9lim diamond, each is achieved by multiplying the fifth to tenth harmonic like below ... this gives us...
tfllt
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Sep 16, 2006
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15691
... there are *five* distinct pentatonic modes to the 9lim diamond, each is achieved by multiplying the fifth to tenth harmonic like below ... this gives us...
tfllt
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Sep 16, 2006
8:57 am
15692
... there are *five* distinct pentatonic modes to the 9lim diamond, each is achieved by multiplying the fifth to tenth harmonic like below ... this gives us...
tfllt
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Sep 16, 2006
9:09 am
15693
... by the way, u r hot =p...
tfllt
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Sep 16, 2006
9:47 am
15694
... i meant to say fifth to *ninth* (in an octave boundry)...
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