Kraig's Double Dekany

Greetings from Finland!

We have a lot of snow here in Helsinki and it's very dark most of the
day. I haven't seen the Sun for many days.

Kraig Grady's 1-3-5-7-9 Double Dekany which is a 14-tone Constant
Structure has an interesting property. When playing every other note
of it you get either just major or just natural minor scales. Has
anyone ever used this scale in a composition?

Kalle

Kalle!
I actually used it in a section of "Mystery without Clews" a film made in a castle on the
French Riviera. The part in question
used 4 people on my large D'Alessandro marimba and the scale was broken into tetrachords.

kalleaho wrote:

> Greetings from Finland!
>
> We have a lot of snow here in Helsinki and it's very dark most of the
> day. I haven't seen the Sun for many days.
>
> Kraig Grady's 1-3-5-7-9 Double Dekany which is a 14-tone Constant
> Structure has an interesting property. When playing every other note
> of it you get either just major or just natural minor scales. Has
> anyone ever used this scale in a composition?
>
> Kalle

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
Wed. 8-9 KXLU 88.9 fm

--- In tuning@y..., "kalleaho" <kalleaho@m...> wrote:
> Greetings from Finland!
>
> We have a lot of snow here in Helsinki and it's very dark most of
the
> day. I haven't seen the Sun for many days.
>
> Kraig Grady's 1-3-5-7-9 Double Dekany which is a 14-tone Constant
> Structure has an interesting property. When playing every other
note
> of it you get either just major or just natural minor scales. Has
> anyone ever used this scale in a composition?
>
> Kalle

I'm deeply interested in a set of similar 14-tone scales, which I
call "double diatonic". They can be tuned for example in 26-tET,
where they each consist of two interweaved meantone diatonic scales.
In one version, the two diatonic scales are a half-octave apart, and
each completes _all_ of the other's 5-limit triads into 7-limit
tetrads (12 in all). I'm waiting to find out where this shows up on
Gene's ranking.