edo anonymous

Hi Tuning,

Basically I've been thinking about 31-edo today and chords. It's
definitely not 12-edo. My understanding is you have to start with
all the harmonizations before stepping out to more outside notes.
This makes Schoenbergian sense---since his music as many would admit
is tonal harmony. That's why his is the most listened to today of
any avant garde (arguable). He's on the Brahms cultivation--- when
he expanded to 12 notes it is still great music because of the music
theory of tonality underneath it, yet there are less discriminations
than even Liszt.

In my 31-edo latest findings, what seems to be working best is
finding the basic chords and scales. I'm finding it difficult to use
every single chromatic note as the root note they are not all the
same. Let me explain I took the major scale in C and harmonized it
all the way up in 7ths and then for Dbb1 all the way up an octave to
B#30. It definitely has some sweet spots in there. But in my
opinion I'm probably going to just stick with the basic harmony and
then find if there is some neat dissonance works. I like dissonance
though some of my favorites are Ruggles' Sun Treader, Helps Shall We
Dance, Symphony 1, Schoenberg Chamber Sym 1, Pierrot Lunaire.

With decades of exploration in the widely used 12-edo, only then I
think could dissonances be appropriated decently. A lot of listening
is subjective but educated listening is best---don't disregard the
old school. I really like this microtonal Bach Brandenburg from
Early Festival.

Great messages and I am glad to contribute.

your addict,
John