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Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs) & Partch

🔗Prent Rodgers <prentrodgers@...>

7/7/2005 2:35:55 PM

Amazon has recently begun posting the Statistically Improbable Phrases
(SIPs) in the books that it has the content rights to. These are the
phrases that appear more often in the book than in all the other books
in its catalog. Here are the SIP's for Partch's Genesis of a Music.
Visit http://Amazon.com , enter the book "Genesis of a Music", and
click on the phrases to see other books that also have the phrases.

Or go directly here if you don't mind pasting the URL together:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/030680106X/qid=1120771840/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-2425325-2599304

Here are the SIP's in the book:

maximal consonance, intervals between degrees, median register,
ancient harmoniai, cents cents cents cents, guitar fifths, secondary
tonalities, small hand instruments, vibrational ratio, beating
partials, auxiliary degrees, resolving chord, undertone series,
approximate pitches, epic chant, tuning gears, implied interval, lost
musicians, diatonic genus, enharmonic genus, equally tempered, color
analogy, harmonic music, relative consonance, equal semitone

And the Capitalized Phrases (CAPs):
Sensations of Tone, Bass Marimba, Tonality Diamond, Arithmetical
Proportion, Diamond Marimba, Ptolemaic Sequence, Musician's
Arithmetic, Numerary Nexus, Marimba Eroica, Cloud-Chamber Bowls,
Adapted Viola, Gourd Tree, Spoils of War, Surrogate Kithara, Middle
Ages, Kathleen Schlesinger, Ling Lun, Quadrangularis Reversum, Colin
Brown, Harmonical Proportion, Adapted Guitar, San Francisco, The
Macmillan Company, Theory of Evolving Tonality, University of Wisconsin

Prent Rodgers