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error in posting on Ives 48-tet scale

🔗Joe Monzo <monz@xxxx.xxxx>

12/7/1999 9:32:24 PM

I made an error in drawing the bass clef in my
ASCII rendering of the music example in my posting
in Tuning Digest 423, Message 1, taken from page 109
of 'Scrapbook', in Ives's _Memos_ (I think).

This one looks a lot better:

> /\
> /
> /
> / O
> / ---
> /
> / ---
> /
> / ---
> / cycle
> / --- -O-
> /
> /\ / -O- --- \ ---
> | | / \
> --|-|---/--------------------------------\--------------------
> |/ | \
> --|----------------------------------------\------------------
> /| \
> |- \-----------------------------------------\----------------
> | / | \ \
> |-|-|-|-----------------------------------#O---\--------------
> \___|/ #O \ \ 4
> ----|-----------------------------------\---------------------
> \__/ \
> \
> \
\
> -_..._---------------------------------------\----------------
> ' '\. O \ 3
> \------|------------------------------------------------------
> \ / . \
> -----/-------#O-------------------------\---------------------
> / \
> ---/--------------------------------------\-------------------
> \
> --------------------------------------------\-----------------
> \
> --- --- \
> \ 2
> -O- -O-
>
>

I also wrote:

>
> I find it very interesting that his notation here of 'notes
> in the old scale' uses sharps for all of the chromatic notes
> except for the flat which marks the highest note, the 'octave'
> of the 'larger scale'. I don't know if there's any significance
> to that, but it seems noteworthy.
>

But also note that in the musical example, the augmented 9th
[= stretched 'octave'] *is* notated as 'D#'.

Hmmm...

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
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