MOS (Grady and Erlich)

>Just about all the Arabic music I've ever heard that is clearly
>xenharmonic uses whole tones and sesquitones. 24tET or not, these are
>not MOS scales. When you reply, please base it on Arabic music you've
>HEARD, not medieval Arabic theory.

MOS does do one thing that nothing else I know of does. It explains why 5
or 7 but not 6.

Listening to Marcus Hobbs' _From on High_ demonstrates that MOS turns out
killer scales. What more do you need?

Carl

Carl Lumma wrote:

>MOS does do one thing that nothing else I know of does. It explains
why 5
>or 7 but not 6.

Bah! Tetrachord/trichord theory explain that very well! Even propriety,
if you're talking about a chain of fifths.