Delurking and Yowsers

Gee, started dropping by after a long absence and find out (via Grahams history) that I helped rediscover something. Either that or I've discovered
someone with my name. Good deal in either event!

>
> Negri, Hanson, and Valentine are re/discovered by Dave,
> Robert Valentine, myself, and others (they won't be named
> for another year or two).
It seems that Valentine temperament has something to do with (or maps nicely to) EDO31. At the time I was active here, I was very excited about MOSes
and 31. Even got a 31-tone G&L, (though I never really produced anything with it). Assuming that really is my name there, I am honored!

Obviously lurking is because I am getting re-interested in computer music and tuning again, do people on this list work with CSound?
Any recommendations for how to get a 'composing process' going for someone who has been mainly noodling on 12-tet guitars for the past
few years?

Re the English Cadence, I've been listening to pre-tonal music a lot, both Medeivel and Renaissance (and this list was a key in turning me on to a lot of
It). It was obvious there was some momentary 'spiciness' in the Tallis I was listening to. It sounds a lot better with a choir than an mp3 piano. Harmony
(whether consonant or dissonant) was a byproduct of melodies, leading tones came before Vmajor-->I! So the 'augmented octaves' is just a harmonic
collision between the 'rising' melody and the 'falling' melody. The amount of spiciness may have a lot to do with how a choir tunes it. For a "sharps are
higher than flats" kind of tuning, it will be a milder dissonance than a meantone.

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On 24 April 2011 11:02, Valentine, Bob <bob.valentine@...> wrote:

> > Negri, Hanson, and Valentine are re/discovered by Dave,
> > Robert Valentine, myself, and others (they won't be named
> > for another year or two).
>
> It seems that Valentine temperament has something to do with (or maps nicely to) EDO31. At the time I was active here, I was very excited about MOSes
> and 31. Even got a 31-tone G&L, (though I never really produced anything with it). Assuming that really is my name there, I am honored!

Valentine is (or could be) 31&46. It has 15 and 16 note MOSs. So,
you must have been looking at a 15 or 16 note scale in EDO31, and the
repercussions are with us to this day.

> Obviously lurking is because I am getting re-interested in computer music and tuning again, do people on this list work with CSound?

Prent uses it, some of the rest of us have looked at it. There was a
thread around these parts recently. Summary: avoid certain pitch to
frequency opcodes if you want obsessive accuracy.

> Any recommendations for how to get a ‘composing process’ going for someone who has been mainly noodling on 12-tet guitars for the past
> few years?

Dig out that 31-tone G&L?

Graham