re: 2001 MOS Odyssey. cool chord in piece

R Walker wrote:

>> I dig that chord right at measure 19. Some sort of jazz thing?
>> Definitely has a pleasant bite to it.
>Chord is (measured from the "B" below middle c = 253.319 Hz)
>1/4 -217.66 cents 273.51 cents 764.69 cents 1473.51 cents
>With all notes on guitar:
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/1o4_m217_273_764_1473.mid
>To within 14 cents it's
>1/4 7/8 7/6 14/9 7/3
>=
>1/4 -231.174 cents 266.87 cents 764.916 cents 1466.87 cents
>where the 7/6 is particularly close (within 0.3 cents).
>However, perhaps that one doesn't have quite the same "bite" somehow:
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robertwalker/1o4_7o8_7o6_14o9_7o3.mid
>
>Reducing all into same octave, and starting at the 14/9, one gets:
>1/1 9/8 9/7 3/2
>=
>1/1 203.91 cents 435.084 cents 701.955 cents
>Notes actually used:
>1/1 217.655 cents 435.312 cents 708.827 cents
> So maybe that gives some idea of what it is?
>
>Robert

That gives me the idea. . . .weirdly enough, though, I'm not hearing it as
particularly "microtonal"---I would think the 764 cent interval would pop
out, but all the notes seem to reinforce each other nicely, and nothing
sound out of the ordinary (even though, as I say, it sounds *good*)

Anyhow, thanks for the info.. . .

***From: Christopher Bailey******************

http://music.columbia.edu/~chris

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Hi Christopher

> That gives me the idea. . . .weirdly enough, though, I'm not hearing it as
> particularly "microtonal"---I would think the 764 cent interval would pop
> out, but all the notes seem to reinforce each other nicely, and nothing
> sound out of the ordinary (even though, as I say, it sounds *good*)

> Anyhow, thanks for the info.. . .

Yes, I'd agree, and surprising for such a xenharmonic scale!

Robert