Re: [tuning] Verdi does it again!

>"Quel vecchio maledivami" (the old man cursed me) is an aria for
>Rigoletto. Once again Verdi very nearly uses the New Albion scale for
>it, and once again, the only problem occurs because 648/625 isn't 1.
>The 225/224-planar worked extremely well last time, so I'll tune it
>that way again.
>
>I'm wondering if this is characteristic of Verdi, or if I just never
>noticed this happening before. Has anyone else noticed such things?

What do you mean by "uses the New Albion scale"? That's a 12-tone
scale. You mean he avoids its wolves?

The only thing I know about Verdi and theory, is that he sometimes
used the "enigmatic" scale, 0-1-4-6-8-10-11.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@s...> wrote:

> Let's see if I can finally get this right...

Which at the moment I seem to be finding impossible; I missed a B
flat major chord. :(