EDO

> Dan Stearns originated the "edo" designation, because
> many of his compositions use various equal divisions of
> the octave and do not refer to any "typical" harmonic

I thought that Equal Divisions of the Octave was deemed clearer because,
"Equal Temperament" or just "Equal" begs the question "Equal division of
what???" which is USUALLY answered by the Octave, but sometimes not.

(as in Xenakis' non-octave scales, or the BP scale, etc.)

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Bailey <chris@m...> wrote:
>
>
> > Dan Stearns originated the "edo" designation, because
> > many of his compositions use various equal divisions of
> > the octave and do not refer to any "typical" harmonic
>
> I thought that Equal Divisions of the Octave was deemed
> clearer because, "Equal Temperament" or just "Equal"
> begs the question "Equal division of what???" which is
> USUALLY answered by the Octave, but sometimes not.
>
> (as in Xenakis' non-octave scales, or the BP scale, etc.)

Yes, that's true too. "12-ET" or "12-tET" is almost always
understood to mean 12-edo, but it *could* refer to a division
of *any* interval into 12 equal parts.

-monz
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