Fwd: Re: 15 EDO/novaro

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, kraig grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:
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Novaro suggest the following notation

C
C+
C#
D
D#
E
F
F+
F#
G
G+
A
A+
A#
B
C

But what is most interesting is a keyboard that instead of the 2 and then 3 black pattern we are
use to
has a picture of 1 black, then 2 blacks , then three.
One could then use a staff with that looked like this where the black notes are notated on the
lines , the white inbetween
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for my pieces in 16 tones i have use a pattern which i came up with independently of Novaro only
to discover it had bone it alson of 3 blacks then 4 blacks

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Both these form makes are used without accidentals.
he also has a 2 black 4 black keyboard for a 14 tone scale

-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU 88.9 FM WED 8-9PM PST
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STEPHEN SZPAK WRITES:

For me personally, (in 15 EDO) using a standard keyboard, I started from scratch. Each note
of 15 EDO is a color. I put a strip of poster board on the keyboard with the colors in sequence,
and repeating for each octave of course.

white 0 cents ["C" note]
cerise 80 cents
aqua 160 cents
tan 240 cents
pink 320 cents
red 400 cents [ "E" note]
blue 480 cents
yellow 560 cents
brown 640 cents
black 720 cents
fuchsia 800 cents [ "G#" note ]
olive 880 cents
orange 960 cents
green 1040 cents
gray 1120 cents

Example chord: white-red-black-orange WHITE major with a harmonic 7th

I started practicing (learning) what notes go in the BROWN minor triad and what go
into the YELLOW major triad etc etc about 240 hours ago (started in Jan.2003). For
anyone that is interested, the average person, like myself would need about 480 hours,
lets say, to really flow in improvisation. That is playing effortlessly. If you're bright, about
200 hours. I had to make up a chord chart as you might imagine.

S. Szpak

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