Pentatonic scales

Re Pentatonic scales: David Canright published a list of JI pentatonics
in 1/1 (see below as did Lou Harrison in "Lou Harrison's Music Primer."
Probably most of the 5-tone all-superparticular divisions of the octave
we all discussed earlier on the List would also be good scales.

Other interesting pentatonics are slendro-like septimal scales such as
1/1 7/6 4/3 3/2 7/4 2/1 and neutral ones such as 1/1 11/9 4/3 3/2
11/6 2/1, etc. and their modes.

Then, there are (almost) innumerable 5-tone Moments of Symmetry
and other 5 tones out of N-tet (sub)scales which could be tried including
5-tet itself as a limiting case.

(Windham Hill, are you listening?)

--John


Canright, David. "Pentatonics I have known." 1/1 vol. 1 no. 2, 1985,
Just Intonation Network, San Francisco.


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