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Shohé Tanaka and lattice history

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

3/14/2005 11:05:15 PM

If you look at Monz's reproduction of a page from Tanaka here

http://tonalsoft.com/enc/kleisma.htm

it is clear that Tanaka was depicting 5-limit pitch classes as a
*symmetrical* lattice. Is this the earliest that anyone is known to
have done this? I'm still wondering about the 7-limit.