Review of posts in April and May

A list of my more contentful (less conversational)
posts from April and May...

Approximately complete list just intonation dyads
/tuning/topicId_97455.html#97647?var=0&l=1

Little or no use of septimal harmony in doo-wop
/tuning/topicId_98211.html#98223

Functional harmony: Meaning and mechanism
/tuning/topicId_98715.html#98715

Periodicity buzz and time-domain processing in human hearing
/tuning/topicId_98831.html#98941

Where theory falls short
/tuning/topicId_99043.html#99064

Criticism of TTSS
/tuning/topicId_99043.html#99106
/tuning/topicId_99043.html#99122
/tuning/topicId_99043.html#99126

Diatonic notations
/tuning/topicId_99382.html#99407?var=0&l=1
/tuning/topicId_99382.html#99475?var=0&l=1

Lattice distance and chord progressions
/tuning/topicId_99305.html#99447?var=0&l=1
/tuning/topicId_99305.html#99474?var=0&l=1

-Carl

Hi Carl,
--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:
>
> A list of my more contentful (less conversational)
> posts from April and May...
[...]

May I add this review (nearly) unchanged to the xenwiki?
(and all the others too?)

I think it's for list newcomers - like me - a good starting point, to read recommended topics.

Best regards,
Wolf

"wolfpeuker" <wolfpeuker@...> wrote:

> May I add this review (nearly) unchanged to the xenwiki?
> (and all the others too?)
>
> I think it's for list newcomers - like me - a good starting
> point, to read recommended topics.
>
> Best regards,
> Wolf

Hi Wolf,

Sure, I consider everything I post here to be in the public
domain and free for any use.

Putting tuning list posts on the wiki may or may not be
consistent with the style there - I don't hang out there
much so I'm not sure. In any case, I've copied some
previous "reviews" of mine below. You can also check out
my tuning FAQ (draft) at

http://lumma.org/music/theory/TuningFAQ.txt

best, -Carl

2011.03

Grove's article on "temperament"
/tuning/topicId_96244.html#96704
'Mashability'
/tuning/topicId_96623.html#96640
/tuning/topicId_96623.html#96663
/tuning/topicId_96623.html#96692
/tuning/topicId_96623.html#96721
Maqam intonation analysis
/tuning/topicId_96858.html#96871
/tuning/topicId_96858.html#96881
/tuning/topicId_96839.html#96939
/tuning/topicId_96839.html#96945
/tuning/topicId_96839.html#96948
/tuning/topicId_96839.html#96949
/tuning/topicId_96839.html#96951
/tuning/topicId_96858.html#96983
/tuning/topicId_96858.html#97002
/tuning/topicId_96839.html#97013

Chromatic Pairs
/makemicromusic/topicId_26401.html#26424

2011.02

Generalized diatonicity
/tuning/topicId_96322.html#96339
/tuning/topicId_96322.html#96374
/tuning/topicId_96322.html#96402
/tuning/topicId_96322.html#96525

Untwelve 2010 Review
/makemicromusic/topicId_25148.html#25148
/makemicromusic/topicId_25132.html#25180
Heterophony
/makemicromusic/topicId_25238.html#25280
/makemicromusic/topicId_25238.html#25357

Scale Sieve
/tuning-math/message/18810

2011.01

Brats ain't no thing
/tuning/topicId_95321.html#95331
Dichotic listening and Periodicity Buzz
/tuning/topicId_95321.html#95412
/tuning/topicId_95321.html#95487
49:48
/tuning/topicId_95448.html#95661?var=0&l=1
Pajara vs. meantone
/tuning/topicId_95310.html#95826
/tuning/topicId_95310.html#95833
Extended JI in Tanzania?
/tuning/topicId_95845.html#95924
/tuning/topicId_95845.html#96002
A MOS by any other name...
/tuning/topicId_95922.html#95939

The changing role of pitch in music
/makemicromusic/topicId_24278.html#24278
Electronica and microtonality
/makemicromusic/topicId_24353.html#24381
On 4:5:6:7 approximations
/makemicromusic/topicId_24652.html#24728
Most well temperaments sound the same
/makemicromusic/topicId_24919.html#24967
Roots and the blues
/makemicromusic/topicId_24996.html#25011
/makemicromusic/topicId_24996.html#25014
/makemicromusic/topicId_24996.html#25046
/makemicromusic/topicId_24996.html#25048
Substitutions
/makemicromusic/topicId_24996.html#25108

Automatic just intonation
/tuning-math/message/18529
1029
/tuning-math/message/18559
/tuning-math/message/18560
Best macro-ETs
/tuning-math/message/18593

2010.12

Triadic entropy reproduces TOP tunings when linearly constrained
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#94932
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#94963

Triadic entropy is proportional to Tenney height for Just triads
/tuning/topicId_95088.html#95227

Entropy of l=u triads is related to the badness of their
vanishing comma
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#95041

Triadic entropy vs. Cook & Fujisawa
/tuning/topicId_95036.html#95077

Monte Carlo triadic entropy minimizer
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#95028

Trilinear coordinates for tetradic entropy
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#95144

5:6:7 vs. 6:8:9
/tuning/topicId_95138.html#95162

Exotic temperaments containing 12-ET approximations
/tuning/topicId_95224.html#95246

Rank 1 subgroup temperaments with integer basis elements
/tuning/topicId_95273.html#95295

History of Pascal's triangle
/tuning/topicId_95075.html#95075
Microtuning on Quora
/tuning/topicId_95082.html#95082
Geocities archive available
/tuning/topicId_95126.html#95126
CELT audio codec and psychoacoustic model
/tuning/topicId_95198.html#95198
EverTune bridge for electric guitars
/tuning/topicId_95264.html#95264

2010.11

Formula for fret division:
/tuning/topicId_93888.html#94198

Explaining regular mapping / father temperament:
/tuning/topicId_94411.html#94438?source=1&var=0&l=1
/tuning/topicId_94411.html#94447?var=0&l=1
/tuning/topicId_94411.html#94460?var=0&l=1
/tuning/topicId_94411.html#94482?var=0&l=1
/tuning/topicId_94411.html#94488?var=0&l=1

On Mike's "DC" concordance model
/tuning/topicId_94207.html#94317
/tuning/topicId_94207.html#94320
/tuning/topicId_94207.html#94321?var=0&l=1
/tuning/topicId_94207.html#94340
/tuning/topicId_94207.html#94695

More on triadic entropy:
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#94570
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#94932

Exciting developments in keyboards:
/tuning/topicId_94391.html#94391
/tuning/topicId_94391.html#94499
/tuning/topicId_94391.html#94518
/tuning/topicId_94391.html#94568
/tuning/topicId_94722.html#94738
/tuning/topicId_94722.html#94799
/tuning/topicId_94722.html#94802

2010.10

Links to online resources related to Xenharmonikon:
/tuning/topicId_93812.html#93861

Contacted list founder and documented date of first post:
/tuning/topicId_93098.html#93936

Excavated Geocities URLs from archives:
/tuning/topicId_93812.html#93877
...hopefully somebody will dig these out of the torrent
when it is published...

Answered FAQs:
/tuning/topicId_93812.html#93815

Pitch analysis of a Maqam Al-Iraqi recording excerpt:
/tuning/topicId_93182.html#93615

Ruminations on the meaning of "tonality":
/tuning/topicId_93833.html#93929
including PDF score
/tuning/topicId_93833.html#93940
and algorithmic method for creating tonal chord progressions
/tuning/topicId_93833.html#93900

Provided recipe to compute triadic harmonic entropy:
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#93396
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#93399
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#93468
/tuning/topicId_93392.html#93495
...and more thanks to Steve Martin's pioneering work

Comments on Thresholds of Discrimination (Vos, van Vianen):
/tuning/topicId_93182.html#93512
/tuning/topicId_93182.html#93524

Debunked dubious claims in ethnomusicology:
/tuning/topicId_93182.html#93584
/tuning/topicId_93182.html#93595
/tuning/topicId_93618.html#93639
/tuning/topicId_93618.html#93642
/tuning/topicId_93182.html#93658
/tuning/topicId_93182.html#93677

Most instruments have perfectly harmonic timbres:
/tuning/topicId_93182.html#93770
/tuning/topicId_93182.html#93781
/tuning/topicId_93182.html#93797

Four minutes of 15-limit electric slide guitars tuning up:
/makemicromusic/topicId_23403.html#23403
URLs have moved to permanent homes
http://lumma.org/music/theory/cosmolyra/2Cosmos.mp3
http://lumma.org/music/theory/cosmolyra/2Cosmos1.jpg
http://lumma.org/music/theory/cosmolyra/2Cosmos2.jpg

Fokker block approach for starling[11] scales:
/tuning-math/message/18305
/tuning-math/message/18318
including code
/tuning-math/message/18306?var=0&l=1

-End

Hi Carl,

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:

>
> Hi Wolf,
>
> Sure, I consider everything I post here to be in the public
> domain and free for any use.

Thanks, good to know about that.

>
> Putting tuning list posts on the wiki may or may not be
> consistent with the style there - I don't hang out there
> much so I'm not sure. In any case, I've copied some
> previous "reviews" of mine below. You can also check out
> my tuning FAQ (draft) at
>
> http://lumma.org/music/theory/TuningFAQ.txt

BTW: "Q: Why did Bach favor minor keys?"

The answer there seems rather unsatisfying to me.
(Sorry about that: Bach is my cue.)
Maybe this would be stuff for a new topic:
"Why did Bach favor minor keys?" - but ist this microtonal/xenharmonic?

Best,
Wolf

"wolfpeuker" <wolfpeuker@...> wrote:

> BTW: "Q: Why did Bach favor minor keys?"
>
> The answer there seems rather unsatisfying to me.
> (Sorry about that: Bach is my cue.)
> Maybe this would be stuff for a new topic:
> "Why did Bach favor minor keys?" - but ist this
> microtonal/xenharmonic?

I tried to answer it using psychoacoustics, and this
answer has implications for new tonal systems based on
other kinds of chords. That said, it's a speculative
answer and probably doesn't belong in the FAQ. But I'm
curious to hear your opinion, either here or offlist!

-Carl