source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 01:29:24 +0200 Subject: JI modes From: Greg Schiemer > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Topic No. 1 > > Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 12:55:14 -0400 (EDT) > From: DFinnamore@aol.com > To: tuning@ella.mills.edu (multiplerecipientsoflist) > Subject: RE: Why x-ET? > heart-stopping in-tune-ness. The first time I played with a Phrygian JI > scale I had distilled from a series of > prime-number-series-numerator-over-power-of-two-denominator ratios (there's > probably a more concise and standard way to indicate that - hopefully you get > the drift) I had chills for a week. I had the feeling that it was prompting > some sort of "life-force" to well up within me. > The scale I referred to runs thusly: 1:1 (no kidding!), 17:16, 19:16, 4:3, > 3:2, 51:32, 57:32. I put the 57:32 on note #11 and add 7:4 on note #10 so I > can throw that shocker in where appropriate. The note numbers refer to a 12t > keyboard. I found that harp or other ringing plucked-string sounds tend to > draw a good vibe out of this scale. What is the term Phrygian JI scale ? I presume David that you mean a mode that begins on the third degree of a JI scale (I looked for confirmation in Doty's primer to no avail and my past experience of the terms dorian phrygian lydian is based on 12-TET where each of these modes is an octave of white notes starting on D, E, F and so on). I was unaware that these terms still apply in the world of JI. BTW, Doty's book is wonderful. Manuel's Scala program too. Through Csound, I am at last able to build on the theoretical input of people on this list by experiencing the physical reality of the tuning itself. Greg S Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 10 May 1997 07:51 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA08754; Sat, 10 May 1997 07:51:49 +0200 Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 07:51:49 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA08548 Received: (qmail 16566 invoked from network); 10 May 1997 05:51:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 May 1997 05:51:42 -0000 Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970509224823.2d576ec0@pacificnet.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu