7, 12, 24 basis for notation (was: Music Notation Modernization Association)

> From: genewardsmith <genewardsmith@juno.com>
> To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:18 AM
> Subject: [tuning] Re: Music Notation Modernization Association
>
>
> --- In tuning@y..., "dkeenanuqnetau" <d.keenan@u...> wrote:
>
> > One of their criteria is that the notation must be "adaptable to a
> > variety of microtonal systems". But they apparently assume that 12-tET
> > is the best or only possible basis for that and that Ab will always
> > equal G# etc.
>
> It's just as possible to start out from a 12 basis as a 7 basis--
> in fact, at one point I thought that was what George was proposing.

and also just as possible to start from a 24 basis; see
http://tonalsoft.com/enc/q/qt-staff.aspx

and to see how i used that 1/4-tone staff to notate 72edo:
http://tonalsoft.com/enc/number/72edo.aspx#qtstaff

-monz

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