compound chords

>That's my favorite too, and it can be called 10:12:15:18 if you're used
>to working with the harmonic series. My second-favorite minor 7th chord
>is 12:14:18:21. Each of these minor seventh chords has all six intervals
>within the 9-limit, and yet neither one is a subset of a 9-limit
>otonality or utonality. I discoved this last year...

Oh come on guys, this isn't rocket science! "Discovered last year"! These
are two of the most basic 7-limit compound chords there are. I dicuss them
both in my review of the Justonic Pitch Palette (October 97), and they were
known to me 6 months before that. Monzo said the 10-12-15-18 is the basic
5-limit minor 7th chord, and it is, and was no doubt known to Ellis.
Graham's stuff is equally trite; nobody forgot these chords, they are
obvious to anybody who has ever played with harmonic series segments or
followed the standard stack-fifths routine...

Carl

Carl Lumma wrote:

> Monzo said the 10-12-15-18 is the basic
> 5-limit minor 7th chord, and it is, and was no doubt known to Ellis.
> Graham's stuff is equally trite; nobody forgot these chords, they are
> obvious to anybody who has ever played with harmonic series segments or
> followed the standard stack-fifths routine...
>
> Carl

All of these chords are in Helmholtz books. Let me state one again, I don't
like the 6/5 as a minor, I never use it!
-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
www.anaphoria.com

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>Oh come on guys, this isn't rocket science! "Discovered last year"!
These
are two of the most basic 7-limit compound chords there are... <

Lumma's right. And while Partch's book is limited to a discussion of the
simple diamond tonalties, Partch's music uses these other chords quite
liberally.

>Oh come on guys, this isn't rocket science! "Discovered last year"!
These
>are two of the most basic 7-limit compound chords there are. I dicuss
them
>both in my review of the Justonic Pitch Palette (October 97), and they
were
>known to me 6 months before that. Monzo said the 10-12-15-18 is the
basic
>5-limit minor 7th chord, and it is, and was no doubt known to Ellis.
>Graham's stuff is equally trite; nobody forgot these chords, they are
>obvious to anybody who has ever played with harmonic series segments or
>followed the standard stack-fifths routine...

I didn't say I discovered these chords last year, and yes they were
obvious to me too for a long time before that. I said that I discovered
a fact about them, a fact which I hadn't seen mentioned before though it
seems quite on track with the Partchian program.