A couple of semi-improvized 7-limit melodies

Hi tuners,

about a week ago, I thought I had discovered a completely new temperament ... I was sooo happy ... That is, until I found Gene's list. :-#
Anyway, before I tell you what tuning that is, I'll let you listen to what I've recorded just a few minutes ago:
www.sendspace.com/file/msto3s

Petr

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Petr Pařízek <p.parizek@...> wrote:
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> Hi tuners,
>
> about a week ago, I thought I had discovered a completely new
> temperament ... I was sooo happy ... That is, until I found Gene's
> list. :-#
> Anyway, before I tell you what tuning that is, I'll let you listen
> to what I've recorded just a few minutes ago:
> www.sendspace.com/file/msto3s
>
> Petr

Nice as always. You mentioned marvel, so I'll guess 7-limit marvel.

-Carl

Hi Carl,

well, it IS rank 3, that's true. Imagine a chain of successive intervals like alternating 6/7s and 7/4s, lowering each consecutive tone by 1/7 of a syntonic comma, and reducing the result to a single octave range. What you get is essentially two 6-tone chains of 2/7-comma meantone, where one differs from the other by something close to 7/6 but not exactly that.

Petr

I definitely recognise a lot of septimal-minor thirds in this. I also heard a lot of thirdless harmonic 7th chords (4:x:6:7). I didn't have time to fill in the third myself in time to get a perfect barbershop 7th.

The major triads I heard sounded pretty standard. I don't remember hearing what sounded like a septimal-major (14:18:21)?

Did you use a certain scale tuning you came up with?

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Petr Pařízek <p.parizek@...> wrote:
>
> Hi tuners,
>
> about a week ago, I thought I had discovered a completely new temperament
> ... I was sooo happy ... That is, until I found Gene's list. :-#
> Anyway, before I tell you what tuning that is, I'll let you listen to what
> I've recorded just a few minutes ago:
> www.sendspace.com/file/msto3s
>
> Petr
>

William Gard wrote:

> Did you use a certain scale tuning you came up with?

As I said in the previous message, those were actually two 6-tone chains of 2/7-comma meantone about 270 cents apart. I just wanted to use a 3D tuning which tempers out 81/80, so I added the 7.

Petr

http://www.box.net/shared/m37jhti1og

These are all available here and in the folder called 'Stuff'.

Free 12-tone Java, Unix programs--written for Mac (Intel)--but should work on other systems....?

At least 2 people on this list have expressed an interest in serial composition, so I thought I'd share some software I've commissioned over the years.

These are programs that generate series with the desired self-similarity or tonal features, and then assist with manipulation and combination.

I'm running these on an Intel Mac, but most should run across platform.

They are written by pros or semi-pros, so they pretty much work.

The programs:

GS.Jar, TT.Jar, RD.Jar--Java. brute force generate-and-test for MOF 12-tone series. pitch-names only.

HandAlg2--Unix. Calculates self-similar series of any size by permutating two user series, outputs result, calculates intervals mod12.

Discrete Log Calculator--Java. Finds self-similar series based on indices of power-residue series.

PermRot--Unix. User inputs series, program calculates any size 'permutation matrix'.

Lincho2--Unix. Extensive program finds alignments between multiple versions of a given row, can build arrays, find combinatorial relations, much more.

There are also some help files, data files, and tutorials for use with each of these.

Let me know if anything runs or works for you. These programs require some explanation. Contact me off-list for assistance. I'm glad to provide more help if I can--I'd be delighted if any of these free programs are useful for someone. They work for me.

calebmrgn@...

caleb

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