Ives 1/8-tones

Johnny,

you wrote [TD 424.19]:

>
> 5 1/4 2 1/8 6 5 1/4 2 1/8 6
> >C
> Ab -25 Db E -25 B -25 Eb -25 Gb
>

Is this part of a sketch of an actual musical line, or is
it a scale diagram in the abstract?

Do the fractional numbers indicate movement in one direction
(up or down) only, or both? If so, is it up or down?

If this is a scale, is 'C' being used as a reference, or 'Ab'?

Without knowing all of this, it's hard for me to make
much sense out of what you wrote.

Assuming:

- that the fractional numbers are what Ives wrote, and the
note-names and cents your editorial addition,

- that the fractional numbers indicate:
(1) semitones with the whole numbers, and
(2) parts of a tone with the fractions,

- that they indicate the intervals between the notes, and

- that the 'C' at the end is the reference,

I calculated (with cents deviation next to the letter-name):

5 1/4 2 1/8 6 5 1/4 2 1/8 6
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
A -50 D E +25 Bb +25 E -25 Gb C

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
|"...I had broken thru the lattice barrier..."|
| - Erv Wilson |
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