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FW: [tuning] Re: This time, major seventh chord wins, followed by five minor seven th chords!

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@...>

10/10/2000 2:27:30 AM

This is the ranking based on the sum of the exponentials of the diadic
harmonic entropies:

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul H. Erlich
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 2:29 PM
To: 'Joseph Pehrson'
Subject: RE: [tuning] Re: This time, major seventh chord wins, followed
by five minor seven th chords!

ok -- off-list now.

Joseph wrote,

>>So, is this it for the top 26?? I guess I can go ahead and assign
>>numbers on the Tuning Lab site, correct??

I wrote,

>Well, there are some chords in this set of 26 that are not in your set of
36, and vice >versa . . .

The easiest thing to do would be to just re-number the 36 you already have
according to their relative positions in the new ranking I gave (so we're
skipping a lot):

bass is always 0

rank tenor alto soprano
1 386 702 1088
2 316 702 1018
3-4 388 702 886
3-4 184 498 886
5 498 886 1384
6 268 702 970
7-8 184 388 886
7-8 498 702 886
9-10 204 702 1088
9-10 386 884 1088
11-12 302 502 1004
11-12 502 702 1004
13 492 980 1472
14-15 186 576 888
14-15 312 702 888
16-17 502 1002 1390
16-17 388 888 1390
18-19 384 588 1086
18-19 498 702 1086
20-21 318 816 1020
20-21 204 702 1020
22-23 268 582 970
22-23 388 702 970
24 388 886 1274
25-26 272 772 974
25-26 202 702 974
27-28 388 776 1090
27-28 314 702 1090
29 500 816 1316
30-31 498 888 1282
30-31 394 784 1282
32-33 318 818 1320
32-33 502 1002 1320
34-35 500 886 1320
34-35 434 820 1320
36 442 884 1326