Manuel Op de Coul's List

COUL@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) wrote:

>
>Bruce R. Gilson writes:
>
>> The notation seemed to imply it. When
>> you give only a "number of steps in an
>> octave" and the number of steps between
>> consecutive notes in the scale [as
>> 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 for a standard major
>> scale] you have something well-defined
>> only in ET.
>
>I wasn't aiming at them to be watertight definitions of scales.

Sorry. I took them as such, as that
was what I really wanted.


>Otherwise I could have listed them as such. To stay with your example,
>you can have a major scale in many different tunings.

Certainly.

In fact, I suppose, what I'm looking
for, which might be too much for a post
on a list such as this, is an "ency-
clopedia of scales," that I could
pick from, program my computer to play
(or set any sufficiently variable-
pitch instrument to play), and thus
hear it.

>The utility of this notation is that it allows me to use it in
>combination with a computer program and for instance
>
>- have a mode-fitting algorithm operate on a given scale and look
>if it's similar to a mode (of equal temperament) in the list,

This is a nice idea. I'd be interested
in the sort of algorithm you use. It
will somewhat depend on how similar
"similar" is, of course.


Bruce R. Gilson
brg@netcom.com



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