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[tuning] PDF reply to study on Turkish maqam music pitch measurements.

🔗Marcel de Velde <marcel@...>

1/8/2013 5:09:40 AM

Hello list,

I've uploaded a PDF to the files section in which I reply to a study co-authored by Ozan Yarman.
/tuning/files/MarcelDeVelde/theoryVSpractice-reply.pdf

The original paper is an excellent study where pitch analysis of many Turkish maqam recordings were compared against several theoretical scales.
The original paper can be found online here:
http://www.ozanyarman.com/files/theoryVSpractice.pdf

However, the scale I found missing in the comparison is Pythagorean.
I've added the pitch data of 12-tone and 24-tone Pythagorean to the comparison list, and one can see that 24-tone Pythagorean matches the measured pitch data better overall than the other scales.

Hope this is of interest to some of you.

Kind regards,
Marcel de Velde