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Message: 2775

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:53:33

Subject: Re: Ennealimmal & co

From: genewardsmith

--- In tuning-math@y..., "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@j...> wrote:

> 2^91 3^-12 5^-31 Limmal 

I left off the map:

[ 0  1]
[-31 5]
[-3  1]

> Generators: a = 12.999127/118 = 132.1945 cents (~27/25); b = 1
> 
> badness: 463
> rms: .0150
> g: 31.38
> errors: [.0152, .0204, .0052]


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Message: 2776

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 04:18:17

Subject: new 1/6-comma meantone lattice

From: monz

I've added a new lattice to my "Lattice Diagrams comparing
rational implications of various meantone chains" webpage:

lattices comparing various Meantone Cycles,  (c)2001 by Joseph L. Monzo *


It's about 2/3 of the way down the page: a new lattice
showing a definition of 1/6-comma meantone within a
55-tone periodicity-block... just under the old 1/6-comma
lattice, below this text:


>> And here is a more accurate lattice of the above,
>> showing a closed 55-tone 1/6-comma meantone chain and
>> its implied pitches, all enclosed within a complete
>> periodicity-block defined by the two unison-vectors
>> 81:80 = [-4 4 -1] (the syntonic comma, the shorter 
>> boundary extending from south-west to north-east on
>> this diagram) and [-51 19 9] (the long nearly vertical
>> boundary), portrayed here as the white area. 
>>
>> For the bounding corners of the periodicity-block, I
>> arbitrarily chose the lattice coordinates [-7.5 -5] 
>> for the north-west corner, [-11.5 -4] for north-east,
>> [11.5 4] for south-west, and [7.5 5] for south-east.
>> This produces a 55-tone system centered on n^0. 
>>
>> The grey area represents the part of the JI lattice
>> outside the defined periodicity-block (and thus, with
>> each of those pitch-classes in its own periodicity-block),
>> and the lattice should be imagined as extending infinitely
>> in all four directions. The other periodicity-blocks,
>> all identical to this one, can be tiled against it to
>> cover the entire space. 



love / peace / harmony ...

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Message: 2777

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:57:16

Subject: Re: OPTIMAL 5-LIMIT GENERATORS FOR DAVE

From: dkeenanuqnetau

It would be evidence that pelog actually is this 5-limit temperament 
if, when a pelog scale departs from 7-tET it does so by making all 
it's fifths but one, even narrower than the 7-tET fifth, i.e. even 
further from a 2:3. A 7-tET fifth is 685.7 c. The rms optimum "fifth" 
in this temperament is 677.1 c. A chain of 6 of these would leave a 
super-wide wolf of 737.2 c.

Do pelog scales really tend to do this; have 6 fifths that are up to  
25 c narrow and one that is up to 35 c wide (of 2:3)?


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Message: 2778

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 04:24:16

Subject: Re: Paul's lattice math and my diagrams

From: monz

> From: paulerlich <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> To: <tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 9:29 PM
> Subject: [tuning-math] Re: Paul's lattice math and my diagrams
>

> > [me, monz]
> > Right, of course... they continue infinitely in the direction
> > of the meantone chain if you don't close the chain somewhere.
> > I *am* interested in closing it so that I get a periodicity-block.
> 
> No, sir, I'm afraid you're completely misunderstanding me. If 81:80 
> is tempered out, then you can keep moving by as many 81:80s as you 
> want in the lattice, and you're still within the strip! In terms of 
> the cylinder, all you're doing is making a full circle around the 
> cylinder in the same direction over and over again.


Oh, OK Paul, I've got you now.  My description really is based
on the planar representation, while you were talking about the
cylindrical representation.


> 
> > So you mean that on your ideal lattice you'd have long
> > (or I probably should say wide) strips of cylinders, right?
> 
> Wide strips, _or_ a single cylinder.


Right... got it.

 
> > My code transforms the prime-axes to a right-angled unit cube,
> > transforms the primary lattice metrics along the 3 and 5 axes
> > to the unit metrics along those new axes, then iterates thru
> > the unit cube to fill it with coordinates x,y, always bouncing
> > to the other side (i.e., modulo) when it goes beyond the
> > floor or ceiling values (i.e., 1/2 > x,y > -1/2), then
> > transforms back to the original lattice coordinates.
> > 
> > This is exactly how I understood your paragraph.  Please correct.
> 
> You appear to have the correct picture of how to create periodicity 
> blocks. I was saying much more than that, but if that's all you were 
> looking for, then you're fine.


Cool.  But even tho it works, there still is something wrong
with the mathematics in my spreadsheet.  I'd appreciate some
error correction.

 


> If there's still any confusion, part 3 of the Gentle Introduction 
> should clear it up.


Yes, I've since taken another look at that.  When I have time
I'll go over my spreadsheet with a fine-tooth comb and compare
it to your webpage description.



-monz


 



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Message: 2779

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:14:39

Subject: Re: Keenan green Zometool struts

From: paulerlich

--- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:

> It might be better to get the creator kit with a different set of 
> greens more later.

Umm . . . did you mean it might be better to get the creator kit 
first and then a kit with more greens later?


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Message: 2780

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:18:22

Subject: Re: Keenan green Zometool struts

From: dkeenanuqnetau

--- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
> --- In tuning-math@y..., paul@s... wrote:
> > Hey Dave,
> > 
> > From Dave Keenan's Home Page * one might get the idea that 
the 
> Zome folks haven't implemented your green strut idea yet.

Good point. I've fixed that now.

> > But I recently saw a kit called "Advanced Mathematics" which did 
> contain green struts.
> > 
> > Did your ideas in fact help this product to be developed?

Yes. There's more detail about that now at the above URL

> > Should I buy the [Advanced Math] kit? It's between 100 and 200 
US$.

I earlier wrote (in a hurry): 
> It might be better to get the creator kit with a different set of 
> greens more later.

This is wrong. My more considered recommendations are now at the above 
URL.


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Message: 2781

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:36:38

Subject: Re: My top 5--for Paul

From: dkeenanuqnetau

--- In tuning-math@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:
> --- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
> > --- In tuning-math@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:
> > > --- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
> 
> > There's nothing terribly personal about the fact that an error of 
> 0.5 
> > c is imperceptible by humans.
> 
> It sure is if you're playing with a loud or distorted sound system 
-- 
> my favorite!

OK. So choose a lower number, it will still be higher than the 0.0002 
c or whatever it was of that supposed number-one temperament that even 
Gene described as "absurd".

> > Theorists have delved into systems such as 118, 171, 612-tET, but 
> has 
> > anything musical ever come of it? And if it has or does, surely we 
> > would be looking at subsets, not the entire 118 notes per octave 
> etc. 
> > i.e. we'd be looking at temperaments within these ETs where 
> consonant 
> > intervals are produced by considerably fewer than 50 notes in a 
> chain 
> > (or chains) of generators.
> 
> Perhaps not yet . . . but what harm comes from _informing_ musicians 
> of these systems? I'd love it if a genius musician did make use of 
> not considerably fewer than 50 notes per octave -- oh, wait a 
minute, 
> my lips are a little partched today . . . 

Whether you take Partch's 41 to be schismic-41 plus 2 or miracle-45 
minus 2, no consonant interval is produced by a generator-chain of 
more than 23 notes. I consider 23 to be considerably less than 50.

> and when I make lattices 
> for these systems, you can be sure I'm going to start with the 
> simplest and work my way up until the impenetrable thickets of notes 
> make me decide a single line of data from Gene would be more 
> appropriate.

OK. But don't some of the simplest ones have such large errors as to 
be absurd too?

> Hey Dave, why not look at Gene's list of 5-limit temperaments and 
see 
> if he's missed anything?

This would be a lot easier for me if he would deign to give the 
optimum generator (whether rms or max-absolute), in cents.


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Message: 2782

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:44:30

Subject: Re: My top 5--for Paul

From: dkeenanuqnetau

--- In tuning-math@y..., "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@j...> wrote:
> This is the 21st century--there is no particular obstacle to using 
612 notes, 

For that matter there's no technical obstacle to using an 
essentially continuous spectrum.

> other than that is lot of notes to get around to.

That's the one! Namely the limitation is in human cognition. The 
composer can have computer assistance, but the listener can't.


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Message: 2783

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 04:38:09

Subject: Re: My top 5--for Paul

From: genewardsmith

--- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:

> This would be a lot easier for me if he would deign to give the 
> optimum
generator (whether rms or max-absolute), in cents.

Ummm...ever heard of mulitplication? Graham likes it in octaves, and
lately I've been packaging information more compactly by picking and
appropriate et and giving it relative to that. The hard work is
finding a rational number the generator corresponds to, and I've been
doing that. I don't know how seriously you meant this, but of course I
could do cents also, but so could you.


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Message: 2784

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 04:42:35

Subject: Re: My top 5--for Paul

From: genewardsmith

--- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
> --- In tuning-math@y..., "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@j...> wrote:
> > This is the 21st century--there is no particular obstacle to using 
> 612 notes, 
> 
> For that matter there's no technical obstacle to using an 
> essentially
continuous spectrum.

None whatever. I often don't use a scale. However, using a temperament
differs from not using one; I can imagine a composer wanting to use
ennealimmal approximations in what is in effect JI music, and 171 or
612 could be appropriate for that.

> > other than that is lot of notes to get around to.
> 
> That's the one! Namely the limitation is in human cognition. The 
> composer can have computer assistance, but the listener can't.

The listener doesn't need to sort out 612 notes, this is a red
herring.


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Message: 2785

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:53:11

Subject: Re: Keenan green Zometool struts

From: paulerlich

--- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
> --- In tuning-math@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:
> > "The only problem with the Advanced Math kit is that it doesn't 
have 
> > any short whole greens (G0). I recommend adding 48 of these (at 
> > US$9.60)."
> > 
> > I can't figure out how to order 48 short whole greens from the 
> > website. Can you help?
> 
> You can't order them via the web. Just email your entire order to 
> sales@z...
> 
> Are you getting the bundle of the Adv Math kit with George Hart and 
> Henri Picitto's Zome Geometry book?

That's this one, yes?

Advanced Math Creator Kit Bundle *


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Message: 2786

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:12:01

Subject: Re: Paul's lattice math and my diagrams

From: monz

> From: paulerlich <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> To: <tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 2:21 PM
> Subject: [tuning-math] Re: Paul's lattice math and my diagrams
>
>
> --- In tuning-math@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
> > So essentially what you're saying is that Chesnut, in his article
> > on Mozart, *extrapolates* from Tosi's description of a 55-EDO
> > conception, to Leopold Mozart's praise of Tosi, to W. A. Mozart,
> > and that I have mistakenly accepted that as evidence?
> 
> Nowhere does Chesnut claim that Mozart used 55-EDO or "9 commas per 
> whole-tone, 5 commas per diatonic semitone". He simply provides a 
> historical context in which Mozart's preferences can be understood. 
> Daniel Wold, for example, advocated 1/4-comma meantone for 
> Mozart . . . who can say?


Hmmm... what about my ears telling me that my 55-EDO rendition of
the beginning of Mozart's 40th Symphony, on my webpage
Mozart's tuning: 55-EDO,  (c) 2001 by Joseph L. Monzo *
sounds so much like the great old recording of it from 78s
that I loved as a kid?  That was one of the most startling
things that came out of this webpage, for me.

OK, so that still doesn't weigh all that much... I haven't
listened to versions in other meantones yet, and in any case
it's only a few measures.


-monz



 



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Message: 2787

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:58:58

Subject: Re: more 2-D periodicity-block math (was: new 1/6-comma meantone lattice)

From: paulerlich

--- In tuning-math@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:

> One of the unison-vectors will tile the plane along
> either of two parallel sides of the parallelogram, and the
> other unison-vector will tile the plane along either
> of the other two parallel sides.

This is exactly what the "Gentle Introduction" shows.


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Message: 2788

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:02:14

Subject: Re: Paul's lattice math and my diagrams

From: paulerlich

--- In tuning-math@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
> 
> > From: paulerlich <paul@s...>
> > To: <tuning-math@y...>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 1:51 PM
> > Subject: [tuning-math] Re: Paul's lattice math and my diagrams
> >
> >
> > > Oh, OK Paul, I've got you now.
> 
> 
> Hope you didn't take that the wrong way... I meant that
> I understand (I think...)
> 
> 
> > > My description really is based on the planar representation,
> > 
> > The wrong planar representation, in my opinion.
> 
> 
> Even after emphasizing the equivalence of tiled
> periodicity-blocks?  I don't get it!

We're talking about meantone, yes?
> 
>  
> > P.S. How can you include W. A. Mozart under 55-EDO on your Equal 
> > Temperament definition page? I could understand if you wanted to 
put 
> > Mozart on a meantone page, but 55? Totally unjustified. Come on, 
> > let's not just make things up.
> 
> 
> Well... his conception was clearly based on the
> "9 commas per whole-tone, 5 commas per diatonic semitone" idea.

There is no evidence for that. All we know is that he taught sharps 
lower than the "equivalent" flats.


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Message: 2789

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:08:07

Subject: Re: OPTIMAL 5-LIMIT GENERATORS FOR DAVE

From: paulerlich

--- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:

> > > As a 5-limit approximation the 522.86c 
> > > generator is junk. It has an error of 25 c in the 2:3.
> > 
> > On behalf of Herman Miller, Margo Schulter, Bill Sethares, and 
the 
> > entire island of Java, let me just say #(@*$& ?@#>$, and then let 
me 
> > just say, go play with this scale for a while. 'Junk' my &$$.
> 
> Paul, I think you're severely distorting what I wrote. I didn't say 
> pelog is junk. I said "as a 5-limit approximation ..."

But it's really the ratio of *3* that had the error you objected to.

> Is there really any evidence that pelog is a 5-limit temperament?

I think there's strong evidence it at least relates to the 3-limit, 
and that's the error you objected to. As far as 5-limit, it's 
definitely a matter of opinion, but I'm referring to Herman Miller's 
use of the scale, not necessarily the traditional one. I'm also 
referring to Margo and Bill's use of consonant sonorities where the 
departures from 5-limit JI are even larger than this.

> > > So there are 
> > > plenty of other temperaments as good as this.
> > 
> > By _as good as_, I mean having an equal or lower RMS error ANS 
and 
> > equal or lower 'gens' measure.
> 
> Why can't I use my own criteria for "as good as"?

Well, we're trying to find out if Gene is missing anything with his 
methods. But if you'd like to suggest a different measure of cents 
error and/or a different complexity measure, I'd hope Gene could be 
accomodating . . .


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Message: 2790

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:11:34

Subject: Re: OPTIMAL 5-LIMIT GENERATORS FOR DAVE

From: paulerlich

--- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
> --- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
> > Do pelog scales really tend to do this; have 6 fifths that are up 
to  
> > 25 c narrow and one that is up to 35 c wide (of 2:3)?
> 
> OK. I checked it out myself in the Scala archives and the answer is 
> yes! They really do.

Well, this should be mentioned in our paper, I think.
> 
> So, although pelog is well represented as a chain of very uneven (+-
25 
> c) generators averaging 523 c +-15 c, I'm still waiting to learn 
> whether -1, 3 and -4 generators traditionally represent the 
> consonances of the system?

Gamelan music doesn't operate with Western notions of "consonance" 
and "dissonance". There is lots of simultaneity though, so the issue 
wouldn't seem to be completely irrelevant . . .

> Meanwhile, I'll asume this apparent 5-limit approximation is real 
and 
> will weight the gens by 1/log(max-odd-factor) and give you the list 
of 
> those with whole octave period that I consider equal or better than 
> this.

Thanks! Hopefully, Gene can either locate all the ones you give in 
his own terms, or figure out why he missed them.


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Message: 2791

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:19:14

Subject: Re: OPTIMAL 5-LIMIT GENERATORS FOR DAVE

From: paulerlich

--- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
> I've modified my badness measure in ways that I hope take into 
account 
> the fact (assuming it is one) that pelog is some kind of 5-limit 
> temperament. I give the following possible ranking of 5-limit 
> temperaments having a whole octave period.
> 
> Gen     Gens in  RMS err  Name
> (cents)  3   5   (cents)
> ------------------------------------
> 503.8  [-1  -4]   4.2   meantone
> 498.3  [-1   8]   0.3   schismic
> 317.1  [ 6   5]   1.0   kleismic
> 380.0  [ 5   1]   4.6
> 163.0  [-3  -5]   8.0
> 387.8  [ 8   1]   1.1
> 271.6  [ 7  -3]   0.8   orwell
> 443.0  [ 7   9]   1.2
> 176.3  [ 4   9]   2.5
> 339.5  [-5 -13]   0.4
> 348.1  [ 2   8]   4.2
> 251.9  [-2  -8]   4.2
> 351.0  [ 2   1]  28.9
> 126.2  [-4   3]   6.0
> 522.9  [-1   3]  18.1   pelog?

Dave, I was hoping that, instead of doing this, you would think in 
terms of two separate badness factors, an 'error' factor and 
a 'complexity' factor -- and let us know if you could find anything 
that was better on _both_ factors than _any_ of the temperaments I 
listed, but was not in the list anywhere . . . see?


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Message: 2792

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:30:12

Subject: Re: Paul's lattice math and my diagrams

From: monz

> From: paulerlich <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> To: <tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:02 PM
> Subject: [tuning-math] Re: Paul's lattice math and my diagrams
>
>
> > > [Paul]
> > > P.S. How can you include W. A. Mozart under 55-EDO on your Equal 
> > > Temperament definition page? I could understand if you wanted to
> > > put Mozart on a meantone page, but 55? Totally unjustified.
> > > Come on, let's not just make things up.
> > 
> > 
> > Well... his conception was clearly based on the
> > "9 commas per whole-tone, 5 commas per diatonic semitone" idea.
> 
> There is no evidence for that. All we know is that he taught sharps 
> lower than the "equivalent" flats.


Hmmm... I'll have to find some time to dig back into this... too
preoccupied with periodicity-block stuff math right now.  So
essentially what you're saying is that Chesnut, in his article
on Mozart, *extrapolates* from Tosi's description of a 55-EDO
conception, to Leopold Mozart's praise of Tosi, to W. A. Mozart,
and that I have mistakenly accepted that as evidence?


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Message: 2793

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:14:21

Subject: Re: OPTIMAL 5-LIMIT GENERATORS FOR DAVE

From: clumma

> I've modified my badness measure in ways that I hope take into
> account the fact (assuming it is one) that pelog is some kind
> of 5-limit temperament.

Was there evidence for this, or is this just an assumption for
further exploration?  It strikes me as extremely unlikely that
any Indonesian tuning is a 5-limit temperament.

-Carl


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Message: 2794

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:29:48

Subject: Re: OPTIMAL 5-LIMIT GENERATORS FOR DAVE

From: clumma

>>I've modified my badness measure in ways that I hope take into
>>account the fact (assuming it is one) that pelog is some kind
>>of 5-limit temperament.
> 
>Was there evidence for this, or is this just an assumption for
>further exploration?  It strikes me as extremely unlikely that
>any Indonesian tuning is a 5-limit temperament.

Posted this before I saw the bit on six narrow and one wide
fifths.  But:

() The Scala scale archive is not a good source of actual pelogs,
or any other ethnic tunings for that matter.

() There may be many explanations for this pattern of fifths,
including something like Sethares' treatment... have you seen
his derivation of gamelan tunings in his book?  While far from
conclusive, it's the best treatment I've seen, and the approach
strikes me as making sense...  The long decay of gamelan
instruments, the style of Indonesian music, the timbre of
metalophones, and the ubiquity of the pythagorean scale suggest
some chain of fifths over which the total sensory dissonance
has been minimized.  The 'experimental' way in which actual
instances of these ensembles are tuned (as opposed to fixed
tunings which are written down) fits this theory.

() In any case, because Indonesian music doesn't use 5-limit
consonances -- let alone modulate them -- I'd call it an abuse
of terminology to say they use a 5-limit temperament, even if
the data do match up.  Since there is such wide variation in
Indonesian tunings, it isn't very difficult to get the data to
match, either...

-Carl


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Message: 2795

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:21:01

Subject: Re: Paul's lattice math and my diagrams

From: paulerlich

--- In tuning-math@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
> 
> > From: paulerlich <paul@s...>
> > To: <tuning-math@y...>
> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:02 PM
> > Subject: [tuning-math] Re: Paul's lattice math and my diagrams
> >
> >
> > > > [Paul]
> > > > P.S. How can you include W. A. Mozart under 55-EDO on your 
Equal 
> > > > Temperament definition page? I could understand if you wanted 
to
> > > > put Mozart on a meantone page, but 55? Totally unjustified.
> > > > Come on, let's not just make things up.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Well... his conception was clearly based on the
> > > "9 commas per whole-tone, 5 commas per diatonic semitone" idea.
> > 
> > There is no evidence for that. All we know is that he taught 
sharps 
> > lower than the "equivalent" flats.
> 
> 
> Hmmm... I'll have to find some time to dig back into this... too
> preoccupied with periodicity-block stuff math right now.  So
> essentially what you're saying is that Chesnut, in his article
> on Mozart, *extrapolates* from Tosi's description of a 55-EDO
> conception, to Leopold Mozart's praise of Tosi, to W. A. Mozart,
> and that I have mistakenly accepted that as evidence?

Nowhere does Chesnut claim that Mozart used 55-EDO or "9 commas per 
whole-tone, 5 commas per diatonic semitone". He simply provides a 
historical context in which Mozart's preferences can be understood. 
Daniel Wold, for example, advocated 1/4-comma meantone for 
Mozart . . . who can say?


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Message: 2796

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:24:43

Subject: Re: OPTIMAL 5-LIMIT GENERATORS FOR DAVE

From: paulerlich

--- In tuning-math@y..., "clumma" <carl@l...> wrote:

> () There may be many explanations for this pattern of fifths,
> including something like Sethares' treatment... have you seen
> his derivation of gamelan tunings in his book?

Looks totally contrived, and what about harmonic entropy?

> () In any case, because Indonesian music doesn't use 5-limit
> consonances -- let alone modulate them 

It modulates plenty, as we've recently discussed on the tuning list. 
And, listen to some Pelog-scale Indonesian music. It doesn't evoke 5-
limit harmony to your ears?

> I'd call it an abuse
> of terminology to say they use a 5-limit temperament, even if
> the data do match up.  Since there is such wide variation in
> Indonesian tunings, it isn't very difficult to get the data to
> match, either...

At least, we can call it a "creative interpretation" of Pelog, which 
Herman Miller has used effectively in his music, and the tuning of 
which is by no means precluded as a "statistical center" for actual 
Pelog tunings.


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Message: 2797

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:03:46

Subject: Re: Keenan green Zometool struts

From: dkeenanuqnetau

--- In tuning-math@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:
> "The only problem with the Advanced Math kit is that it doesn't have 
> any short whole greens (G0). I recommend adding 48 of these (at 
> US$9.60)."
> 
> I can't figure out how to order 48 short whole greens from the 
> website. Can you help?

You can't order them via the web. Just email your entire order to 
sales@xxxxxxxx.xxx.

Are you getting the bundle of the Adv Math kit with George Hart and 
Henri Picitto's Zome Geometry book?


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Message: 2798

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:23:38

Subject: Superparticular 5-limit scales

From: genewardsmith

The three smallest 5-limit superparticulars are 81/80, 25/24, and
16/15. Putting these into the form of a matrix and inverting gives us
[h3 h5 h7], and hence (81/80)^3 (25/24)^5 (16/15)^7 = 2. We can
arrange these 15 scale steps in a number of ways given by the
multinomial coefficient 15!/(3! 5! 7!) = 360360, which rotations and
inversions would reduce further.

All of these scales are epimorphic, with defining val h15 = h3+h5+h7,
so singling out the interesting ones means putting on additional
contraints; convexity and connectedness suggest themselves, of course.

Anyone care to take a shot at it?


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Message: 2799

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 03:01:25

Subject: Re: OPTIMAL 5-LIMIT GENERATORS FOR DAVE

From: dkeenanuqnetau

--- In tuning-math@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
> Do pelog scales really tend to do this; have 6 fifths that are up to  
> 25 c narrow and one that is up to 35 c wide (of 2:3)?

OK. I checked it out myself in the Scala archives and the answer is 
yes! They really do. 

I said I didn't know much about pelog, but I'm blowed if I know where 
I got that approx 7-tET idea.

So, although pelog is well represented as a chain of very uneven (+-25 
c) generators averaging 523 c +-15 c, I'm still waiting to learn 
whether -1, 3 and -4 generators traditionally represent the 
consonances of the system?

Meanwhile, I'll asume this apparent 5-limit approximation is real and 
will weight the gens by 1/log(max-odd-factor) and give you the list of 
those with whole octave period that I consider equal or better than 
this.


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