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An amazing new kind of transformation

🔗Gene W Smith <genewardsmith@juno.com>

4/21/2002 8:13:08 PM

Since I just discovered it, perhaps "amazing" is immodest, but that is
how it struck me. This is a transformation which transforms from the
64/63 planar temperament to the
126/125 planar temperament and back!

It works as follows: using the approximations 64/63~1 or 126/125~1
respectively, the
7-limit music can be pulled back to a 5-limit preimage in a canonical
way, since
7~64/9 in the first instance, and 7~125/18 in the second instance. We
then apply a standard triad preserving mapping of order 2, namely

2-->2
3-->10/3
5-->5

While sending triads to triads, it also sends tetrads in 64/63~1 to
tetrads in 126/125~1, and tetrads in 126/125~1 to tetrads in 64/63~1; for
instance 1-5/4-3/2-7/4 in 64/63~1 becomes 1-5/4-5/3-10/7 in 126/25~1, and
vice-versa.