Re: [tuning] Digest Number 636-13-tet

Alita: I prefer to use modes of the scale 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 (8-tones) in
13-tet, as did Blackwood. Chords in 13-tet are a real problem as no
intervals in 13-tet are very consonant. One solution is to use a
computer (PC or MAC) and run Csound and make up timbres consisting only
of octave-extended 13-tet intervals (a 13-tet tempered harmonic series).
This will make the intervals much more consonant. Bill Sethares does
this in the CD accompanying his book, Timbre, Tuning, Spectrum, Scale.

Thirteen-tet, IMO, is a melodic, not harmonic tuning.

In XH13, I discussed some chords in 13-tet, but my harmonic language
would sound rather harsh and atonal. Paul Rapoport suggested another
approach based on a 10-tone subset of 13-tet in the same issue. Warren
Burt also discussed the tuning in the same issue.

Good luck.

--John