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6285
Hi folks, I guess I mentioned a while ago I'd start an Interval Databse, so let me mention my experiences, let's go... I made an algorythm that made the...
Porres
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Jun 2, 2003
3:21 pm
6286
... not very well, since every pitch will appear in an infinite number of positions....
wallyesterpaulrus
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Jun 2, 2003
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6287
hi alex, most of your questions have been addressed at length in the old discussions on the tuning list. perhaps you could take some time to look over the...
wallyesterpaulrus
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Jun 2, 2003
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6288
Hy Wally, well, as I said, I was first concerned on creating a tool ( a table) where you could convert cents to a integer ratio, as you can't calculate that I...
Porres
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6289
... as others have mentioned to you on other lists, it totally depends on the context. it's quite rare for anyone to notice a melodic interval difference of 5...
wallyesterpaulrus
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Jun 2, 2003
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6290
Great, great, now I'm getting it, t's just that I'm not familiar with all this music, not to say the theory, and I'm also kinda far ( I do live in Brazil ),...
Porres
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6291
... There's no difficulty in doing that; you don't need a table....
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 3, 2003
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... Oh really, how can I do that? I remember I saw someone asking about this somewhere, and there was a reply that you couldn't actually do it, that's how I...
Porres
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Jun 3, 2003
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6293
... Let <a[0], a[1], a[2], ...> be such that the a[i] are integers, and a[i]>0 for i>0. For any finite subsequence, we define a corresponding fraction as...
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 4, 2003
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thanks, I've seen many things now for the topic of cents to ratio convertion, I'll note them all down and show them to someone near me that can 'translate' it,...
Porres
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Jun 4, 2003
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6295
... If I enter "a5val [19, 30, 44] [31, 49, 72];", it just spits back the input. ... Why? -Carl...
Carl Lumma
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Jun 5, 2003
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6296
... a5val is a Maple function, so you need to enter a5val([19, 30, 44], [31, 49, 72]); ... Because if a is the approximation to 3, a^2 will be the...
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 5, 2003
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... Ah, I'd tried that without the comma between the two lists. Great. So they all give the comma for meantone. And I'm beginning to understand vals. ... I'm...
Carl Lumma
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Jun 5, 2003
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... Of course; otherwise it would not be a 9-limit opitmization. ... I do sometimes....
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 5, 2003
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Hi Alex, Welcome to tuning-math. Here's what Gene was talking about, implemented in an Excel spreadsheet. ...
Dave Keenan
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Jun 6, 2003
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6300
Hi guys, George Secor and I could use some help with the sagittal notation project. We're approaching the notation of ratios from a new direction. We expect it...
David C Keenan
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Jun 6, 2003
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6301
... course ... Those are pretty common; you just need a planar temperament where the fifth works as a generator, and then use a tuning where it is pure.\ It...
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 6, 2003
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Is this at all what you are looking for? 4375/4374 7-limit planar temperament generator 1: 2 generator 2: 3 generator 3: 4.999748162, or 2786.226514 cents ...
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 6, 2003
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6303
... apotome ... OK. Forget the planar temperament stuff. The things I'm interested in are mathematically like a _linear_ temperament, but instead of repeating...
Dave Keenan
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Thnaks Kennan!!! ... Gee, I only know about high school math, actually not even that cause it's been so long... it's funny that in my musical training now I'm ...
Porres
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Jun 6, 2003
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Alex, see this: http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/intervals.html There's a link on the bottom to another page of Dave for more info. Manuel...
Manuel Op de Coul
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Jun 6, 2003
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... this is going to be a bizarre notation indeed! without octave equivalence??? ... the ... how did that leapfrog over the diaschisma 2048/2025??...
wallyesterpaulrus
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Hi Manuel I had seen that, actually I used it and put it into an eletronic database, I'll read carefully Dave's page, I see you use that terminology to name...
Porres
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6308
... Oh dear. I almost despair of communicating my intentions here if _you_ are not getting it Paul. But this certainly is not the kind of "linear temperament"...
Dave Keenan
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Jun 6, 2003
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6309
Gene, So what's the deal with the synchronous versions of temperaments? Can you give a rundown of of some of them -- metameantone, wreckmeister (?), wendell...
Carl Lumma
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Jun 10, 2003
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... No opinion about what should be done, but I felt more for making a list of historical names, and Dave for making a consistent terminology. ... Well there's...
Manuel Op de Coul
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Jun 11, 2003
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If you're interested in Regener, my Master's thesis presents his work, among other things: http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~bdenckla/thesis/texts/htthe I've...
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Jun 11, 2003
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6312
hi Ben, ... wow, thanks! i'll enjoy reading this! good luck with publication ... keep trying. -monz...
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Jun 11, 2003
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6313
Responding to a question from Carl, I present Baked Alaska, an alaska-style temperament with brats of exactly 3/2 and 2. This isn't as nifty as it sounds,...
Gene Ward Smith
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Jun 13, 2003
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Hi Manuel ... point in ... Sure, not all of them, just the ones that were historically important, but then I guess you already used them all in Scala, right? ...
Porres
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