re: Try tuning the beats out of a G13#11!

> [me, monz, Wed Aug 23, 2000 2:39pm]
http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/11748
>
> In the voicing I used, the 12-tET tuning has the proportions:
> 2^(0/12) : 2^(6/12) : 2^(10/12) : 2^(16/12) : 2^(21/12)
> = 8 : ~11.31 : ~14.25 : ~20.16 : ~26.91
>
> The JI tuning has the proportions 8 : 11 : 14 : 20 : 26

> [Dan Stearns, Wed Aug 23, 2000 7:51pm]
http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/11763
>
> Interesting enough, in the context of Patrick's comment, Joe seems
> to have posted a truncated 4:5:6:7:9:11:13 (where tuning out the
> beats might be the least of the problems!), or a 4:5:6:7 G7:
>
> 5/4
> /|\
> / | \
> / 7/4 \
> /,' `.\
> 1/1-------3/2
>
> and a 7:9:11:13 Bbmaj7#5:
>
> 9/8---11/8
> `. ,'|
> 7/4 |
> `.|
> 13/8
>

Nice polytonal analysis, Dan...

... and it's quite appropriate for describing my own harmonic
technique in a lot of rock tunes I wrote back in the mid-1980s
- for example, the intro to _So Ultraconservative_:

http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/songs/so-ultra.htm

But you meant 'and a 7:9:11:13 _F_maj7#5' for the second chord here,
not Bb!

-monz
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html