source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 20:38:10 -0700 Subject: Pygmy music From: Mmcky@aol.com The pygmy scale: tones: 1/1 8/7 21/16 3/2 7/4 steps: 8/7 147/128 8/7 7/6 8/7 Also: Scale: 1 LCM: 2^7*3*7^2 5 196 7/ 4 Harmonic Minor Seventh 4 168 3/ 2 Perfect Fifth 3 147 21/ 16 2 128 8/ 7 1 112 1/ 1 Unison Minimum Chords: 1 84 4: 6: 7 1- 4- 5 2 168 21: 24: 28 3- 4- 5 3 336 14: 16: 21 1- 2- 4 I just couldn't resist the opportunity to do a short composition. My fil5 utility expands this to: LCM: 2^8*3^5*5^3*7^2 12 392 7/ 4 Harmonic Minor Seventh 11 336 3/ 2 Perfect Fifth 10 300 75/ 56 9 294 21/ 16 8 288 9/ 7 7 270 135/ 112 6 256 8/ 7 5 250 125/ 112 4 243 243/ 224 3 240 15/ 14 2 225 225/ 224 1 224 1/ 1 Unison Minimum Chords: 1 84 4: 6: 7 1- 11- 12 2 126 14: 18: 21 1- 8- 11 3 168 21: 24: 28 9- 11- 12 4 180 9: 10: 12 2- 5- 10 5 180 15: 18: 20 2- 7- 10 6 210 5: 6: 7 3- 8- 11 7 336 14: 16: 21 1- 6- 11 8 1350 25: 27: 30 2- 4- 7 You can ftp the resulting composition from users.aol.com. (6,100 bytes.) CD to MMCKY and download the file pygmy.zip. Marion Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 10:42 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA19937; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 01:42:48 -0700 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 01:42:48 -0700 Message-Id: <9510280841.AA22529@nyx10.cs.du.edu> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu