RE: [tuning] Re: Good 5-limit scale generators (was: More on comp osing in X...)

Carl Lumma wrote,

>> the 8-note one is commonly
>> called the "octatonic" scale. Messiaen is known for using it and
>> writing about it, but Stravinsky also used it extensively, and I
>> believe Rimski-Korsakov was the first to use it.

Joseph Pehrson wrote,

>And Bartok excessively... correct (??)

I was taught that even Bach used it once or twice. Ernest Bloch used it very
extensively. And every jazz musician knows it as the diminished scale and
has some standard patterns to use in it, whenever a 7#9 or a 13b9 chord
comes along.

Paul H. Erlich wrote,

> I was taught that even Bach used it once or twice. Ernest Bloch used
it very extensively. And every jazz musician knows it as the
diminished scale and has some standard patterns to use in it, whenever
a 7#9 or a 13b9 chord comes along.

Ditto every metal guitarist in the post early Scorpions Uli Roth era!

--Dan Stearns