XTC accidentals for 72et (and other 12th-tone systems)

Friends,

I'm just now getting around to rebuilding my old homepage which I haven't used in years. I'm finally getting better acquinated with XHTML and CSS, many years late.

Anyway, this is what I was talking about earlier - my own system of accidentals for 72 equal temperament. The GIF file is a rough draft.

http://www.geocities.com/dawier/xtc_acc.gif

The name XTC stands for "eXtended Tartini-Couper", and is pronounced like 'ecstasy'. I simply took Tartini-Couper accidentals, which represent pitch shifts of a multiple of three twelfth-tones (50 cents in 72et); up and down arrows affixed to an accidental indicates the pitch is shifted up or down one twelfth of a tone (16 2/3 cents).

I could also call it TCB, for "Tartini-Couper-Bart�k", since the Hungarian composer used arrows to indicate small adjustments in pitch for folk melodies. (TCB, as you should know, also stands for "taking care of business".)

And Ozan, you could use this for your 79-tone tuning if you want.

I'm also wondering about this document:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4438359/Introduction-to-QuarterTone-Music

On page 14, the author, whose name I can't find, cites the same system as "Skinner", listing a comparison of these accidentals with those of Blackwood, H�ba and Wyschnegradsky. I'm Googling for anyone named Skinner that ever worked in quarter-tone music, and found a dissertation written by one Myles Skinner: http://www.tierceron.com/diss/diss.html. (Is he claiming Tartini-Couper accidentals as his own?)

Anyway, this is what I'm using in my scores for now. I'm already used to using TC quarter-tone accidentals, so adding arrows was just a logical extension.

~D.