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Hi margo

A good holiday for you 2 with best tunings !!!(-:

Shaahin Mohajeri

Tombak Player & Researcher , Microtonal Composer

My web siteوب سايت شاهين مهاجري <http://240edo.tripod.com/>

My farsi page in Harmonytalk صفحه اختصاصي در هارموني تاك <http://www.harmonytalk.com/mohajeri>

Shaahin Mohajeri in Wikipedia شاهين مهاجري دردائره المعارف ويكي پديا <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaahin_mohajeri>

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🔗Margo Schulter <mschulter@...>

Hello, everyone, and I wanted to share the exciting news that John
Chalmers' famous book _Divisions of the Tetrachord_, which sadly has
been out of print for some time, is now available for free download on
the Web through the Frog Peak site (third item on the menu):

<http://www.frogpeak.org/unbound/index.html>

This is a book that I've long wanted to own, and the many tunings from
its pages included in the Scala scale archives are all the more of an
appetizer.

Of course, it's very possible that others here have well aware of this
incredibly generous gift from John, Carter Scholz, Larry Polansky,
Frog Peak and others -- or even that by now it's common knowledge.
However, even everyone here were aware of this Web release of the
book, I'd still consider it an occasion for lots of celebration.

Since 1998, I've been most deeply indebted to John for helping me in
my first phrases of exploring alternative tunings. At that time I had
been composing and improvising for about 31 years -- now it's 40 --
but was just starting to get really focused on things like
Pythagorean and meantone. John's thoughtful and encouraging
correspondence not only answered some of my questions, but brought to
me attention new possibilities: 17-EDO and 5-EDO, for example, and the
exciting fact that an extended Pythagorean chain of fifths could
emulate ratios of 7.

Even the collection of scales from _Divisions of the Tetrachord_
included in the Scala archive gives a hint that this is indeed a
powerful book. For example, in the last week I've just composed a
piece based on a soft diatonic that I hope to record and post in the
next few days. Because of the element of irregular temperament, the
step sizes are slightly different than in John's version -- but close
enough to make the affinity clear, I hope.

Anyway, now that I've been seeking and finding some approximations of
John's "vertex" tunings from the Scale archives in a new temperament,
I can actually read the chapter from which they were taken, along with
the rest of this germinal volume.

The best to all, in peace and love,

Margo
mschulter@...

🔗Aaron Krister Johnson <aaron@...>

Thanks for the info Margo! This is great news....glad to hear from you
after some time since the holidays. I hope you are well, and I'm
looking forward to your music post!

-A.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Margo Schulter <mschulter@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello, everyone, and I wanted to share the exciting news that John
> Chalmers' famous book _Divisions of the Tetrachord_, which sadly has
> been out of print for some time, is now available for free download on
> the Web through the Frog Peak site (third item on the menu):
>
> <http://www.frogpeak.org/unbound/index.html>
>
> This is a book that I've long wanted to own, and the many tunings from
> its pages included in the Scala scale archives are all the more of an
> appetizer.
>
> Of course, it's very possible that others here have well aware of this
> incredibly generous gift from John, Carter Scholz, Larry Polansky,
> Frog Peak and others -- or even that by now it's common knowledge.
> However, even everyone here were aware of this Web release of the
> book, I'd still consider it an occasion for lots of celebration.
>
> Since 1998, I've been most deeply indebted to John for helping me in
> my first phrases of exploring alternative tunings. At that time I had
> been composing and improvising for about 31 years -- now it's 40 --
> but was just starting to get really focused on things like
> Pythagorean and meantone. John's thoughtful and encouraging
> correspondence not only answered some of my questions, but brought to
> me attention new possibilities: 17-EDO and 5-EDO, for example, and the
> exciting fact that an extended Pythagorean chain of fifths could
> emulate ratios of 7.
>
> Even the collection of scales from _Divisions of the Tetrachord_
> included in the Scala archive gives a hint that this is indeed a
> powerful book. For example, in the last week I've just composed a
> piece based on a soft diatonic that I hope to record and post in the
> next few days. Because of the element of irregular temperament, the
> step sizes are slightly different than in John's version -- but close
> enough to make the affinity clear, I hope.
>
> Anyway, now that I've been seeking and finding some approximations of
> John's "vertex" tunings from the Scale archives in a new temperament,
> I can actually read the chapter from which they were taken, along with
> the rest of this germinal volume.
>
> The best to all, in peace and love,
>
> Margo
> mschulter@...
>

A pause for the Holidays

🔗Margo Schulter <mschulter@...>

🔗Carl Lumma <ekin@...>

🔗Mohajeri Shahin <shahinm@...>

🔗Margo Schulter <mschulter@...>

🔗Aaron Krister Johnson <aaron@...>