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15770
I would like to see the results of... for all equal temperaments with 5 <= G <= 100 steps/octave for all K such that 3 <= K <=6 for all K-out-of {2 3 5 7 11 13...
Carl Lumma
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Oct 2, 2006
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15771
... C half-diminished-7 (C, Eb, Gb, Bb) ... Other ratios, by skipping one for the second line and two for the third line ... of ... By setting any value of the...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Oct 2, 2006
4:39 pm
15772
... voice- ... Also, a tempered semitone in 12-tET is about 18/17. Notice that 15/14, 18/17, 21/20, the numerators and denominators are each three apart. So a...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Oct 2, 2006
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15773
A version of this weighted by chordal Tenney height would be interesting also. -C....
Carl Lumma
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Oct 3, 2006
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15774
... Ah yes. ... I guess I don't know what about superparticularity makes for parsimonious voice leading. Wouldn't any small intervals do? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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15775
... What exactly are you looking for? Lowest errors? That seems a little artificial, since errors get lower as divisions get larger anyway....
Gene Ward Smith
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Oct 3, 2006
5:58 am
15776
... Doesn't the original text make it clear that this is badness (* G)? The idea is, instead of finding rank 2 temperaments and then embedding them in a...
Carl Lumma
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Oct 3, 2006
6:05 am
15777
... Yes, you are correct, for example there is 27/25. However, you can (for example) multiply this out by the syntonic comma, 27/25 * 80/81 to obtain 16/15. I...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Oct 3, 2006
4:29 pm
15778
... It seems to me that logflat badness figures have been posted a zillion times. If that wasn't enough, there are related topics, including some on OEIS: ...
Gene Ward Smith
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Oct 3, 2006
7:53 pm
15779
... None of them return the result that I'm suggesting (characteristic harmonic basis for each ET < 100). If that wasn't enough, there are related topics,...
Carl Lumma
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Oct 4, 2006
2:31 am
15780
... And many irrational intervals... ... It will tend to be true, because you're restricting yourself to simple ratios (the diamond and CPSs live in compact...
Carl Lumma
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Oct 4, 2006
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15781
... What's a characteristic harmonic basis? This doesn't seem to have much to do that I can see with what you were asking before....
Gene Ward Smith
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Oct 4, 2006
3:25 am
15783
... A set of n primes <= 17 which the ET is better at approximating than any other. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Oct 4, 2006
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15784
... ...Any other set of n primes <=17, not any other ET. -C....
Carl Lumma
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Oct 4, 2006
9:17 am
15785
Given a 7-limit planar temperament in the strict sense, where 2 is a generator, we can choose two other generators so that the tetrad or pentad is contained in...
Gene Ward Smith
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Oct 4, 2006
9:49 am
15786
... That still isn't making sense--pick the best approximated prime, and that singleton set is your answer....
Gene Ward Smith
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Oct 4, 2006
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15787
... That doesn't make sense to me--ets are never better than all other ets. Do you mean all smaller ones?...
Gene Ward Smith
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Oct 4, 2006
9:57 am
15788
... The above is from: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/15785 Gene, this is really nice. Thanks! --George...
George D. Secor
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Oct 4, 2006
3:36 pm
15789
... The number of primes I'm considering starts at 3 and goes to 6. -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Oct 4, 2006
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15790
... Please remind me what a generator rectangle is, someone. Thanks! I take it a pentad is (1, 6/5, 7/5, 8/5, 9/5, 2) ? ... satisfies ... pentads. ... order ...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Oct 4, 2006
7:27 pm
15791
... It's a generalized chain-of-generators scale. If we have the two generators of a planar temperament, it is the set of interval classes (scale) defined by...
Gene Ward Smith
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Oct 4, 2006
9:40 pm
15792
... Thanks. Do you use rectangular arragements for your purposes? Some points that can be made: we can generalize the idea of Graham complexity to each of the...
Gene Ward Smith
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Oct 4, 2006
10:07 pm
15793
... Taking your sorting instructions literally (so the list is mostly sorted by badness), here's my Python code: import regular, temper primeLookup =...
Graham Breed
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Oct 5, 2006
8:09 am
15794
... Only if linear ones aren't efficient enough, which seems to be the case for the 13 limit in 130-ET. For 130 I was able to find a relatively compact planar...
George D. Secor
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Oct 5, 2006
7:34 pm
15795
here is a scl file of the 11lim diamond on a 'centreless' map (each otonality begins on a utonal element rather than 1/1) it fits on the chromatic keyboard...
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Oct 6, 2006
4:50 pm
15796
I am rereading Goedel Escher Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter (BTW, a new edition has been published, I think the major change is a new Forward). Anyway, I think...
Paul G Hjelmstad
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Oct 6, 2006
6:36 pm
15797
... Can you show us a single octave of it in a diamond layout, or tell us exactly which two scales are being multiplied together? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Oct 7, 2006
6:27 am
15798
... not sure what you mean by 'two scales are being multiplied together? the scale i posted is simply a square block taken from the tonality diamond (rather...
tfllt
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Oct 7, 2006
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15799
... Can you show your work? ... I guess I don't. ... ... -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Oct 7, 2006
7:47 am
15800
... hey carl its very simple if you look at a tonality diamond grid in this case of the 11limit take a square like this 1/1 7/6 4/3 3/2 5/3 11/6 |...
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