Re: [MMM] Sad symmetric septimal minor tune

Hi Robert!
I think Al Farabi played allot with dividing the tetrachord into 3
superparticular ratios, one of which is repeated twice. He also played with
the rotations also. see page 4 of http://www.anaphoria.com/xen10pur.PDF

Robert Walker wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've just written a sad tune in a symmetrical septimal
> minor scale (does it have a special name, anyone know?)
>
> The scale is:
>
> 1/1 8/7 7/6 4/3 3/2 12/7 7/4 2/1
>
> and the tune is here as a midi clip:
>
> http://www.tunesmithy.netfirms.com/tunes/tunes.htm#sad_septimal_minor
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
>
>

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