Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup makemicromusic New music

Hi all, I have a new song up at

called "Indian" because I think it resembles Indian music with its focus on melody and drone. It uses 1/6 comma meantone in the key of Eb, so it has some interesting traits: It has a septimal fourth of roughly 21/16 instead of 4/3, and 7/4 is available too although I mostly avoid it. The synth used is my own, a hobby project in linux.

/ Magnus

🔗Jon Szanto <jszanto@...>

🔗Mohajeri Shahin <shahinm@...>

Hi magnus

Very nice and a very persian melody mainly at 5':28" of music. I added a link of your music page in :
http://240edo.googlepages.com/links

Shaahin Mohajeri

Tombak Player & Researcher , Microtonal Composer

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

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

🔗Gene Ward Smith <genewardsmith@...>

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Magnus Jonsson <magnus@...>
wrote:

> It uses 1/6 comma meantone in the key of Eb, so it
> has some interesting traits: It has a septimal fourth of roughly
21/16
> instead of 4/3, and 7/4 is available too although I mostly avoid
it.

21/16 meantone is exact with fifths of size 2^(2/11) 3^(1/11) 7^
(1/11), which is very nearly 3/14-comma. More relevant, I think is
that we get pure 7/4s with a fifth of size 2^(3/10) 7^(1/10), which
is a shade wider than 1/4 comma, and close to 31-et.

We've got the following:

1/4-comma: 696.56 cents
31-et: 696.77 cents
pure 7/4s: 696.88 cents

Hence 31 is in an interesting range, compromising between pure 5s and
pure 7s.

🔗Magnus Jonsson <magnus@...>

Thanks everyone for listening!

I'm thrilled to hear that Jon heard Celtic music and Shaahin Mohajeri heard persian music -- I must have hit on something that's common in many musical cultures.
Shaahin: I will add a link to your page as well.

Gene: You didn't comment at all on my music, only about my choice of tuning. I find that very disrespectful.

Best,
Magnus Jonsson

Jon wrote:

>Sounds nice, and that's a promising little instrument. I have to say, if >you hadn't titled it, Celtic would have popped into my head before Indian.

Shaahin Mohajeri (which name should I call you?) wrote:

>Very nice and a very persian melody mainly at 5':28" of music. I added a >link of your music page in :
>http://240edo.googlepages.com/links

Gene Ward Smith commented that 31 is a better temperament than 1/6 comma meantone.

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Magnus Jonsson wrote:

> Hi all, I have a new song up at
>
> http://hcoop.net/~magnus/music/
>
> called "Indian" because I think it resembles Indian music with its focus
> on melody and drone. It uses 1/6 comma meantone in the key of Eb, so it
> has some interesting traits: It has a septimal fourth of roughly 21/16
> instead of 4/3, and 7/4 is available too although I mostly avoid it. The
> synth used is my own, a hobby project in linux.
>
> / Magnus
>

🔗Mohajeri Shahin <shahinm@...>

Hi
Shaahin Mohajeri
It is correct but call me with my first name: shaahin