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Mark Gould's nonatonic in 14-tET

🔗Carl Lumma <ekin@lumma.org>

4/27/2004 10:41:34 AM

For those of you looking for interesting scales, this one
comes by way of Mark Gould...

!
Mark Gould's scale in 14-tET.
9
!
171.42857 !2
257.14286 !3
428.57143 !5
514.28571 !6
685.71429 !8
771.42857 !9
942.85714 !11
1114.28571 !13
2/1 !14
!

...care to give it a name, Mark?

Using Scala's chromatic clavier, I picked out the following
triads...

1-3-5
1-3-6
1-3-7
1-4-7
1-4-8
1-5-7

The 1-3-5 can be heard as a 6:7:8 in six of the nine modes.

The 1-3-6 sounds very roughly like 10:12:15 triads in six modes...

257.1 685.7 (a)
257.1 600.0 (b)
257.1 685.7 (a)
257.1 685.7 (a)
257.1 685.7 (a)
257.1 685.7 (a)
342.9 685.7 (c)
257.1 685.7 (a)
257.1 600.0 (b)

1-3-7 sounds very distantly like 5:6:8 triads...

257.1 771.4 (a)
257.1 771.4 (a)
257.1 857.1 (b)
257.1 771.4 (a)
257.1 857.1 (b)
257.1 771.4 (a)
342.9 857.1 (c)
257.1 771.4 (a)
257.1 771.4 (a)

1-4-7 sounds like a 7:9:11 in (a), which I think Mark mentioned
(on MakeMicroMusic)...

428.6 771.4 (a)
342.9 771.4 (b)
428.6 857.1 (c)
342.9 771.4 (b)
428.6 857.1 (c)
428.6 771.4 (a)
428.6 857.1 (c)
428.6 771.4 (a)
342.9 771.4 (b)

1-4-8 sounds very Easley-Blackwoodish. (a) can be heard as 4:5:7
or 7:9:12...

428.6 942.9 (a)
342.9 942.9 (b)
428.6 942.9 (a)
342.9 942.9 (b)
428.6 942.9 (a)
428.6 942.9 (a)
428.6 942.9 (a)
428.6 942.9 (a)
342.9 857.1 (c)

1-5-7 sounds cool...

514.3 771.4 (a)
514.3 771.4 (a)
514.3 857.1 (b)
514.3 771.4 (a)
600.0 857.1 (c)
514.3 771.4 (a)
600.0 857.1 (c)
514.3 771.4 (a)
514.3 771.4 (a)

...sorry, I'm pressed for time. Maybe someone else would like
to comment! Does anybody know what Blackwood did for 14?

-Carl