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Fox-Strangways sequence

🔗Carl Lumma <CLUMMA@NNI.COM>

9/11/2000 6:07:59 PM

>> Or, you could tune the C-G-A chord 27/20-81/80-9/8, and drag the
>> comma all the way back to the beginning (the first chord would
>> then be C-E = 27/20-27/16). I wonder how this would sound.
>> Monz?
>
> It uses exactly the same ratios as my '1st example', but a comma
> higher, so essentially it would sound the same.

You're right! And that means it's no good. I missed that the G
at 81/80 is the tonic, violating my own rule of never putting hate
on the tonic.

So my recommendations for this sequence are as follows:

1. For the original score, Monz' 2nd example.

2. For the "sustained-d" score, distribute the comma evenly across
the 6 changes. If John's rigid-spring version turns up anything
other than this, I'll eat my shoe. But I reserve the right not to
like it as much as Partch #3, once I've heard it.

-Carl