Re: [MMM] Re: New (old) Work - 'Self-Similar Variations'

The use of this type of diatonic is very wide spread in various folk musics all
over. It seems the push toward major and minor is a development FROM such a
scale.

Peter Frazer wrote:

> Hello Aaron,
>
> I enjoy your music as ever! For me this one has a sort of North African
> feel to it.
>
> > The xentonality for this piece is mild; here I use the 'Equable Diatonic'
> > scale of Ptolemy (1/1 10/9 11/9 4/3 3/2 5/3 11/6 2/1) which is so-called
> for
> > its most even superparticular 3-part division of the tetrachord...
>
> That's a very strange third. (I thought it was a typo till I tried it.)
> Can you point me to more information on this scale please?
>
> Peter Frazer
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I believe it is a thing you are going to find in the music and not the textbooks
as historically , the music of the people is usually ignored

Peter Frazer wrote:

> Kraig,
>
> Thank you for you comment. I was unaware of this 'neutral' third in
> historical
> use and I shall research this some more as and when I find time.
>
> Peter.
>
>
>

-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
The Wandering Medicine Show
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