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sound analysis software?

🔗Rick Tagawa <ricktagawa@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx>

3/3/1999 5:33:02 PM

I'm in an analysis mode at the moment. I've collected some CDs and have
already performed an analysis of Barbara Lewis, "Hello Stranger" on
ATLANTIC "Ultimate '60s Soul Sensations!" R2 72962 and "Kyo no yoru" on
LEGACY INTERNATIONAL "The Art of the Japanese Bamboo Flute" CD 306 for
the express purpose of seeing how just intonation is used in everyday
music.

I'm using Danielou's 53 note universal harmonic scale (p139 in Music and
The Power of Sound Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont) with the
addition of the 7 limit.

For example I have Barbara Lewis' voice entering on 5/4. For the words
"hello" I have 27/16, 3/2, 256/225 & 5/4 and for the word "stranger"
alternating 10/9 & 160/81 or there abouts.

"Kyo no Yoru" starts and ends on 40/27 with a pentatonic scale: first
degree [160/81, 1, 81/80 & 128/125]; second degree [10/9 & 9/8]; third
degree [75/64]; fourth degree [40/27, 3/2 & 243/160]; fifth degree
[25/16 & 8/5].

Which leads me to my question, has anyone had any experience with sound
analysis software? I see the ad for SOUNDVIEW and visited their website
at www.peabody-digital.com but have no idea how it would work on Le
Mystere des Voix Bulgares or Manhattan Transfer.