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Re: [crazy_music] Digest Number 7

🔗Robert Walker <robertwalker@...>

6/8/2001 8:58:37 PM

Hi Dan,

> However, I do have a few pieces that were written just in those
> tunings, and I'm sure they'll get out there sooner or later. But my
> usual use of these is that they're a part or parts that are nested
> into the composite of combined tuning pieces.

I'll look forward to hearing them.

> Nice job showing everyone some of the mixolydian's sweetness in the
> midi which should clearly line up with the mood I described as 7-limit
> bathed in the ancestral genealogy of 20's 5 equal.
>
> To me these are like normal diatonics crossed through with a sort of
> Sufi like sweetness.
>
> Anyway, thanks for checking them out.

I'd be interested to hear pieces to bring out more of the gamelan like
quality of this scale too - I think it does have some of that as well, and
would't be too much of a surprise given the closeness of some Slendro
scales to 5 equal.

Robert