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Message: 4625 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:45:49 Subject: an earlier presentation, from September From: Carl Lumma http://lumma.org/gd2.txt * http://lumma.org/propertyhierarchy.txt * -C.
Message: 4626 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:24:44 Subject: more objective From: Carl Lumma Disregard my last message, I think this is the best yet: http://lumma.org/gd3.txt * I'd be interested Graham, if you think this is an improvement. -C.
Message: 4627 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:23:39 Subject: Re: A common notation for JI and ETs From: David C Keenan I'll assume for the moment that you accept the addition of a (17'-17) flag as the best way of giving us 17', because it's the only such choice that also gives us 41 (assuming we can only use 1600-ET schismas). Now if we ignore for the moment the relative sizes of the commas, and therefore ignore which pairs we might want to have as left and right varieties of the same type, I get the following left-right assignment of flags as being the one that minimises flags-on-the-same-side for as far down the list of prime commas as possible. By the way, if this list has only one comma for a given prime, the reason is that the same comma is optimal for both diatonic-based (F to B relative to G) and chromatic-based (Eb to G# relative to G) notations. Symbol Left Right for flags flags ------------------------------ 5 = 5 7 = 7 11 = 5 + (11-5) 11' = 29 + 7 13 = 5 + 7 13' = 29 + (11-5) 17 = 17 17' = 17 + (17'-17) 19 = 19 19' = 19 + 23 23 = 23 23' = 17 + (11-5) 29 = 29 31 = 19 + (11-5) 31' = 5 + (17'-17) + 7 or 5 + 23 + 23 37 = 29 + 17 37' = 19 + 23 + 7 or 5 + 17 + 23 or 5+5+19 41 = 17 + (17'-17) + (17'-17) 43 = 19 + 19 + (17'-17) 47 = 19 + 23 + 23 or 5 + 17 + (17'-17) The story goes like this. The 5 comma must be a left flag so that it works like the Bosanquet comma slash. Given 5 as a left flag, the 13 symbol then says the 7 comma must be a right flag and the 11 symbol says (11-5) must also be a right flag. Given 7 and (11-5) right, both 11' and 13' then say 29 must be left. We accepted this much long ago. Now for the rest. Given (11-5) right, 23' says 17 must be left and 31 says 19 must be left. Given 17 left, 17' then says (17'-17) must be right. Given 19 left, 19' then says 23 must be right. That's all 8 flags assigned, and it gets us to 31 limit with minimal same-side flags. There is no other assignment of flags to left and right, that will do that. Notice that the 37 comma is the only one forced to be non-minimal by this assignment. It's very convenient that it gives use 4 on each side. So my new proposal for the flags is | Left Right ---------+--------------- Convex | 29 7 Straight | 5 (11-5) Wavy | 17 23 Concave | 19 (17'-17) Which just swaps the two concave flags from what I had before. The only possible alternatives involve choosing which of 17 and 19 is wavy and which concave, and likewise for 23 and (17'-17), unless you use other types. The above proposal makes the two larger ones wavy and the two smaller ones concave. Note that the above same-side-minimisation process ignores any flag combinations not listed above, that might be wanted for 217-ET (and other ETs). This seems right to me, since I take the prime commas as fundamental, rather than 217-ET. But rest assured that it works out just fine for 217-ET. Now why did I have 19 as a right flag before? That was necessary when we wanted to have the 17 and 19 commas being of the same type. It was also necessary when we were planning to notate 3 steps of 217-ET as 17+19. But now I'm proposing we notate 3 steps as 23 since that avoids a double flag for such a small increment, and lets us have number-of-flags increasing monotonically with number-of-steps. i.e. we only jump from one flag to two at one point in the sequence. And why did you have 23 as a left flag? Presumably only because you had 19 as a right flag for the above reasons, and in that case 19' says 23 should be a left flag. Now that we see that 19 can and should be a left flag, we can see that 23 should be right. Another consideration for determining which type of flag to use for each flag-comma is the intuitiveness of the apotome-complement rules in 217-ET, when the second half-apotome is made to follow the first. Lets look at the size of all the flags in steps of 217-ET, assuming the optimum left-right asignment given above, but ignoring my proposed wavy-concave assignment. Complementary Flag Size Size Flag comma in steps of comma name 217-ET name ---------------------------- Left ---- 29 6 -2 none available with same side and direction 5 4 0 blank 17 2 2 17 19 1 3 none available with same side and direction Right ----- 7 5 1 (17'-17) (11-5) 6 0 blank 23 3 3 23 (17'-17) 1 5 7 Assigning 17 and 23 to wavy and 19 and (17'-17) to concave mean that wavy is always its own complement and, on the right at least, concave and convex are complements. On the left, just as we must avoid using the 29-flag below the half-apotome, we should also avoid using the 19-flag (since it doesn't have a direct flag-complement in 217-ET). This is easy since we can use the (17'-17) flag for 1 step. The rule about using the lowest possible prime would tell us to do this anyway. What this means is that although I've switched the meaning of concave right from 19 to (17'-17), my "plan C2" 217-ET notation proposal doesn't change. Of course you may want to forget about 41 and go back and look at what happens with those other two choices for a new flag to give 17', i.e. (17'-19) or 17' itself. Here's the optimum left-right assignment using a (17'-19) flag. Symbol Left Right for flags flags ------------------------------ 5 = 5 7 = 7 11 = 5 + (11-5) 11' = 29 + 7 13 = 5 + 7 13' = 29 + (11-5) 17 = 17 17' = 19 + (17'-19) 19 = 19 19' = 19 + 23 or 17 + (17'-19) 23 = 23 23' = 17 + (11-5) 29 = 29 31 = 19 + (11-5) 31' = 5 + 5 + (17'-19) or 5 + 23 + 23 or (17'-19) + 7 + 23 37 = 29 + 17 or (17'-19) + (11-5) 37' = 19 + 23 + 7 or 5 + 17 + 23 or 17 + 7 + (17'-19) or 5+5+19 Now lets look at the flag complements for this. Complementary Flag Size Size Flag comma in steps of comma name 217-ET name ---------------------------- Left ---- 29 6 -2 none available with same side and direction 5 4 0 blank 17 2 2 17 19 1 3 none available with same side and direction Right ----- 7 5 1 none available with same side and direction (11-5) 6 0 blank 23 3 3 23 (17'-19) 2 4 none available with same side and direction Looks bad. Here's the optimum left-right assignment using a 17' flag. Symbol Left Right for flags flags ------------------------------ 5 = 5 7 = 7 11 = 5 + (11-5) 11' = 29 + 7 13 = 5 + 7 13' = 29 + (11-5) 17 = 17 17' = 17' 19 = 19 19' = 19 + 23 23 = 23 23' = 17 + (11-5) 29 = 29 31 = 19 + (11-5) 31' = 5 + 23 + 23 37 = 29 + 17 37' = 19 + 23 + 7 or 5 + 17 + 23 or 5+5+19 The only reason for putting 17' on the right here is to give 3 left and 3 right flags, since 17' doesn't actually combine with anything else. Now lets look at the flag complements for this. Complementary Flag Size Size Flag comma in steps of comma name 217-ET name ---------------------------- Left ---- 29 6 -2 none available with same side and direction 5 4 0 blank 17 2 2 17 19 1 3 none available with same side and direction Right ----- 7 5 1 none available with same side and direction (11-5) 6 0 blank 23 3 3 17' or 23 17' 3 3 17' or 23 That also looks bad. It looks to me that including a flag to give us 17' has narrowed our choices considerably. This is not a bad thing, given that the one choice it leaves us, works so well (at least in 217-ET). I think we should describe it as basically 29-limit, and just list the more-than-one-flag-per-side symbols for 31, 37, 41, 43, 47 (and possibly higher, I haven't checked) just once, near the end, as a curiosity. Regards, -- Dave Keenan Brisbane, Australia Dave Keenan's Home Page *
Message: 4631 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:16:27 Subject: 31 limit unique ets From: genewardsmith There are 541 of these up to 1600; the first ten are: 552 1.637374926 571 1.450447298 612 1.695743633 631 1.240353558 634 1.625692282 653 1.055690210 677 1.673616803 718 1.173415260 730 1.601691329 742 1.667556137 The number following each et is a 31-limit badness score. The following had the lowest log-flat badness among the 541: 653 1.105569021 1395 1.052127118 1600 1.016116129
Message: 4632 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:30:59 Subject: Re: the harmonic series segment test From: genewardsmith --- In tuning-math@y..., Carl Lumma <carl@l...> wrote: > 3. 0.36 according to Scala 1.8; diatonic scale in 12-et is 0.77 > This is failing. > > 4. R. stability 0.87 by Scala 1.8; diatonic scale in 12 is 0.95. > This passes. How do you get Scala to compute these?
Message: 4633 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:36:53 Subject: Re: A common notation for JI and ETs From: David C Keenan --- In tuning-math@y..., "gdsecor" <gdsecor@y...> wrote: > I noticed that what I was previously using for conventional symbols > was a bit different from what is commonly used, so I also made an > attempt over the weekend to improve on that. I prefer what you have > for the conventional sharp and flat symbols, but I suggest a wider > natural symbol (as shown in the 4th chord, first staff). You're absolutely right. I'll use your natural. > You have > two different double sharp symbols (for the 6th chord); I also came > up with the same as your second one, which looks good on both a line > and a space (7th chord). Ditto. > Per Ted Mook's criticism (found in your own message #24012 of May 30, > 2001 on the main tuning list) about reading new symbols in poor > lighting at music stand distance, I made the symbols bolder in both > dimensions, and you will find (for the straight flag symbols only) > yours (on the second staff) compared with my latest version (on the > third staff). I still believe this is a problem, but I haven't yet found an acceptable solution. I believe the problem is greatest between the 2, 3 (and in my version, the X shaft symbols). I think there should be a strong family resemblance between the standard symbols and our new ones, or they will not be found unacceptable on visual aesthetic grounds. This is one reason why I find the bold vertical strokes an unacceptable solution to 2-3 confusability. Frankly, I think the best solution is to use two symbols side by side instead of the 3 and X shaft symbols, the one nearest the notehead being a whole sharp or flat (either sagittal or standard). I think we're packing so much information into these accidentals that we can't afford to try to also pack in the number of apotomes. I suggest we provide single symbols from flat to sharp and stop there. At least you have provided the double-shaft symbols so you never have to have the two accidentals pointing in opposite directions. The fact that in all the history of musical notation, a single symbol for double-flat was never standardised, tells me that it isn't very important, and we could easily get by without a single symbol for double-sharp too. With your bold vertical strokes you're taking up so much width anyway, why not just use two symbols? This would require far less interpretation. Also, the X tail suggests to me that one should start with a double sharp and add or subtract whatever is represented by the flags, which is of course not the intended meaning at all. > I saw no need to make the vertical strokes as long as > yours, which enables two new symbols altering notes a fifth apart to > be placed one above the other (first chord on the third staff). You're right. I used the standard flat symbol as my model. You do see flats on scores directly above one another, a fifth apart. They just let the stems overlap. But I agree ours should be shorter. To do it while maintaining the family resemblance, I've now taken the standard natural symbol as my model, and shaved two pixels off the tails of all my symbols. But this still leaves them 2 pixels further from the centre than yours. I also think our flags (except possibly the smallest ones), when space-centered, should overlap the line above and below by one pixel, just as the body of the flat symbol does. i.e. The flags should in general be 11 pixels high. Note that the body of the standard natural and sharp symbols overlap the lines by 2 pixels. I think some overlap is important so as not to lose the detail of the symbol where the staff lines pass thru it. > I > also put the symbols above the staves, making it easier to isolate > them for study. Good idea. > Notice that I tried adding some nubs to the right flags to alleviate > the lateral confusibility problem. This could also be done with the > other flags for the larger alteration in each pair. Yes. That's definitely worth a try. But I'd like to see it done for all four flag types, to ensure that it doesn't interfere with making the types distinct from each other. e.g. the straights you've shown with nubs tend to look a little bit concave. > Another altitude consideration is at the upper right: up-arrows used > with flats use up a lot of vertical space when the new symbols have > long vertical lines. Yes. Good point. I'll meet you half-way on that one. My symbols are now 17 pixels high (while yours are 13), which means they overlap each other by one pixel when they are a fifth apart. I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find some scores that overlap flats like this. They won't overlap naturals or sharps a fifth apart, because that would form a phantom accidental in between, but there's no danger of anything like that with our flags. > Let's see what agreement we can come to about how the straight-flag > symbols should look before doing any more with the rest of them. Well I don't think it is possible to consider the straight flags in isolation from all the others. The full set has to be seen together to be sure they are sufficiently distinct from one another. You are throwing away a lot of horizontal resolution when you make those vertical strokes wider. Regards, -- Dave Keenan Brisbane, Australia Dave Keenan's Home Page *
Message: 4634 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:44:32 Subject: Re: 31 limit unique ets From: dkeenanuqnetau --- In tuning-math@y..., "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@j...> wrote: > There are 541 of these up to 1600; the first ten are: > > > 552 1.637374926 > 571 1.450447298 > 612 1.695743633 > 631 1.240353558 > 634 1.625692282 > 653 1.055690210 > 677 1.673616803 > 718 1.173415260 > 730 1.601691329 > 742 1.667556137 > > The number following each et is a 31-limit badness score. > > The following had the lowest log-flat badness among the 541: > > 653 1.105569021 > 1395 1.052127118 > 1600 1.016116129 Thanks Gene, that's great. I look forward to similar results re 37, 41, 43, 45 and 47 limit unique, if possible.
Message: 4635 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:22:26 Subject: the first six criteria From: Carl Lumma Scales that pass all of the first six criteria ---------------------------------------------- 07- Diatonic scale in meantone [0 5 10 15 18 23 28 31] 3. efficiency 0.76 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 5th is 3:2 in 6 of 7 modes 6. yes; 3rd is 6:5 or 5:4 in 7 of 7 modes 10- Paul Erlich's pentachordal decatonic in 22-tet [0 2 4 7 9 11 13 16 18 20 22] 3. efficiency 0.62 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 7th is 3:2 in 8 of 10 modes 6. yes; 4th is 6:5 or 5:4 in 10 of 10 modes 07- Dave Keenan's heptatonic MOS in porcupine [0 3 6 9 12 15 18 22] 3. efficiency 0.76 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 5th is 3:2 in 4 of 7 modes 6. yes; 3rd is 6:5 or 5:4 in 7 of 7 modes 08- Gene Smith's Euclidean-reduced scale in 46-tet [0 3 12 15 22 27 34 37 46] 3. efficiency 0.55 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 7th is 5:3 in 6 of 8 modes 6. yes; 4th is 5:4 or 4:3 in 7 of 8 modes 10- Carl Lumma's x2 scale in meantone [0 4 6 10 12 16 18 22 25 28 31] 3. efficiency 0.53 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 9th is 7:4 in 8 of 10 modes 6. yes; 4th is 6:5 or 5:4 in 7 of 10 modes 10- Dave Keenan's decatonic MOS in quadrafourths [0 3 6 9 11 14 17 20 23 26 29] 3. efficiency 0.73 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 7th is 3:2 in 6 of 10 modes 6. yes; 4th is 6:5 or 5:4 in 10 of 10 modes 09- Paul Hahn's 4-3-3 trichordal scale in 31-tet [0 4 7 10 15 18 21 25 28 31] 3. efficiency 0.49 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 4th is 5:4 in 6 of 9 modes 6. yes; 8th is 5:3, 12:7, 7:4 in 9 of 9 modes Scales that pass most of the first six criteria ----------------------------------------------- 10- Paul Erlich's symmetrical decatonic in 22-tet [0 2 4 7 9 11 13 15 18 20 22] 3. efficiency 0.51 (ambiguous key) 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 7th is 3:2 in 8 of 10 modes 6. yes; 4th is 6:5 or 5:4 in 10 of 10 modes 10- Easley Blackwood's decatonic in 15-tet [0 2 3 5 6 8 9 11 12 14 15] 3. efficiency 0.27 (ambiguous key) 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 7th is 3:2 in 10 of 10 modes 6. yes; 4th is 6:5 or 5:4 in 10 of 10 modes 08- octatonic scale in 12-tet [0 1 3 4 6 7 9 10 12] 3. efficiency 0.33 (ambiguous key) 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 3rd is 6:5 in 8 of 8 modes 6. yes; 4th is 5:4 or 4:3 in 8 of 8 modes 06- hexatonic scale in 12-tet [0 1 4 5 8 9 12] 3. efficiency 0.42 (ambiguous key) 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 3rd is 5:4 in 6 of 6 modes 6. yes; 4th is 4:3 or 3:2 in 6 of 6 modes 09- David Rothenberg's generalized diatonic in 31-tet [0 5 8 11 14 17 22 25 28 31] 3. efficiency 0.74 4. strictly proper 5. no, but 9th is 15:8 in 7 of 9 modes 6. yes; 8th is 5:3 or 7:4 in 9 of 9 modes 08- Carl Lumma's octatonic subset of kleismic [0 1 5 6 10 11 15 16 19] 3. efficiency 0.75 4. proper, but R. stability only 0.36 5. yes; 3rd is 6:5 in 6 of 8 modes 6. yes; 4th is 5:4 or 4:3 in 5 of 8 modes 09- Balzano's generalized diatonic in 20-tet [0 2 5 7 9 11 14 16 18 20] 3. efficiency 0.74 4. strictly proper 5. no. 6. yes; 8th is 5:3 or 7:4 in 9 of 9 modes 9th is 9:5 or 15:8 in 9 of 9 modes 08- Ken Wauchope's minor [1/1 21/20 7/6 5/4 7/5 3/2 5/3 7/4 2/1] 3. efficiency 0.42 4. strictly proper 5. no, but 6th is 3:2 in 4 of 8 modes 3rd is ~ 6:5 in 6 of 8 modes 6. yes; 4th is 5:4 or 4:3 in 7 of 8 modes Scales that fail the first six criteria --------------------------------------- 06- Hexatonic scale in MAGIC [0 11 13 24 26 39 41] 3. efficiency 0.78 4. proper, but R. stability only 0.40 5. yes; 3rd is 5:4 in 4 of 6 modes 6. no. 07- Neutral thirds scale in 31-tet [0 5 9 13 18 22 27 31] 3. efficiency 0.76 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 5th is 3:2 in 5 of 7 modes 6. no. 08- Ken Wauchope's major [1/1 21/20 5/4 21/16 7/5 3/2 7/4 15/8 2/1] 3. efficiency 0.42 4. not proper 5. no, but 6th is 3:2 in 5 of 8 modes 6. yes; 7th is 8:5, 7:4, 9:5 in 8 of 8 modes 09- Paul Hahn's 3-3-4 trichordal scale in 31-tet [0 3 6 10 13 18 21 25 28 31] 3. efficiency 0.45 4. proper, R. stability 0.92 5. no, but 6th is 3:2 in 4 of 9 modes 6. yes; 8th is 5:3, 12:7, 7:4 in 9 of 9 modes 09- Nonatonic MOS in orwell [0 11 19 30 38 49 57 68 76 84] 3. efficiency 0.74 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 3rd is 7:6 in 8 of 9 modes 6. no. 09- Nonatonic MOS in quadrafourths [0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 29] 3. efficiency 0.74 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 6th is 3:2 in 5 of 9 modes 6. no. 10- Decatonic MOS in MIRACLE [0 7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 72] 3. efficiency 0.73 4. strictly proper 5. yes; 9th is 7:4 in 8 of 10 modes 6. no. -Carl
Message: 4636 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:49:16 Subject: Re: scala stability logic From: Carl Lumma >>And how are you deciding when to say "ambiguous key"? As soon >>as all possible keys are not distinct? > >Yes. > >>For example, the wholetone scale has 1 group of keys, the octatonic >>scale has 2, and the diatonic 7. > >I determine that they have 6, 4 and 1 repeating blocks. So if >that's more than one I add the text "ambiguous key". > >>How are you calculating efficiency in these cases? > >Strictly by R.'s definition. Excellent. >D. Rothenberg, "A Model for Pattern Perception with Musical Applications >Part II: The Information Content of Pitch Structures" Math. Systems >Theory, 1978, p.356 "Note that stability only applies to proper scales." Rats! Looks like Lumma stability is all we have for things like the Pythagorean diatonic, then. -Carl
Message: 4637 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:49:54 Subject: Re: scala stability logic From: manuel.op.de.coul@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Carl wrote: >Any reason you don't display Rothenberg stability for improper >scales? None that I remember, I must have assumed it's not defined for improper scales, but it might well be. I don't have the paper at hand, do you think he didn't make that requirement? Manuel
Message: 4638 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 01:11:34 Subject: Re: scala stability logic From: Carl Lumma >None that I remember, I must have assumed it's not defined for >improper scales, but it might well be. I don't have the paper >at hand, do you think he didn't make that requirement? I seem to think he didn't, though I don't have the paper handy either. And how are you deciding when to say "ambiguous key"? As soon as all possible keys are not distinct? For example, the wholetone scale has 1 group of keys, the octatonic scale has 2, and the diatonic 7. How are you calculating efficiency in these cases? -Carl
Message: 4639 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:25:07 Subject: Re: scala stability logic From: manuel.op.de.coul@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx >And how are you deciding when to say "ambiguous key"? As soon >as all possible keys are not distinct? Yes. >For example, the >wholetone scale has 1 group of keys, the octatonic scale has 2, >and the diatonic 7. I determine that they have 6, 4 and 1 repeating blocks. So if that's more than one I add the text "ambiguous key". > How are you calculating efficiency in these cases? Strictly by R.'s definition. Manuel
Message: 4640 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:27 +0 Subject: Re: scala stability logic From: graham@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx In-Reply-To: <OFF5004A07.0C575491-ONC1256B9E.002AB5D9@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx> Manuel wrote: > Carl wrote: > > >Any reason you don't display Rothenberg stability for improper > >scales? > > None that I remember, I must have assumed it's not defined for > improper scales, but it might well be. I don't have the paper > at hand, do you think he didn't make that requirement? D. Rothenberg, "A Model for Pattern Perception with Musical Applications Part II: The Information Content of Pitch Structures" Math. Systems Theory, 1978, p.356 "Note that stability only applies to proper scales." Carl agreed with this a few days ago. Graham
Message: 4641 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:14 +0 Subject: Re: 41 ET 11-tone diatonic From: graham@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx In-Reply-To: <B8E24EED.3AAA%mark.gould@xxxxxxx.xx.xx> Mark Gould wrote: > Well, some of the conversation is just about understandable, but I don't > have the Rotheberg definition in front of me, nor do I have Scala. Definitions are all at <Definitions of tuning terms: index, (c) 1998 by Joe Monzo *>. Propriety and stability are easy enough. Efficiency is hard to calculate, but tends to be high for an MOS anyway. I don't know of anything that can do the calculations on a Macintosh. If I ever understand it myself, I'll try implementing it in Python. > scale patterns > > 19 22122212221 > 30 33233323332 > 41 44344434443 > > The general pattern I get is thus: > > aabaaabaaab So your scale is really a different tuning of Balzano's 11 from 30? Graham
Message: 4642 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:13 +0 Subject: Re: more objective From: graham@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20020416172331.01f61e50@xxxxx.xxx> Carl Lumma wrote: > Disregard my last message, I think this is the best yet: You have a nice 404 page, anyway. > http://lumma.org/gd3.txt * > > I'd be interested Graham, if you think this is an improvement. It's certainly more objective. Other than that, not so bad. (1b) Immediately fails for any scale without a 3:2. Can we have a range of recognisable fifths? What does "scales with only 1 or 2 unique keys" mean? Is this like whole tone and octatonic scales? I thought something like (2b) should be added, but why mix it with stability? After "Note that stability only applies to proper scales" Rothenberg goes on to say "Also, it does not really measure the degree to which a motif at a given pitch of a scale may be identified with (i.e. recognized as composed of the same interval as) a `modal transposition' of that motif to another pitch in the scale (i.e. a sequence)." So I don't see what it's doing under modal transposition here. He proposed "consistency" as an alternative, although I haven't worked out what he means by it. Whatever, Lumma stability is better than Rothenberg stability for this purpose. Rothenberg stability is certainly important, but should be moved to a different section. I reckon make it (2b) and move the current (2b) to (4b) without the "appears in only one interval class throughout the scale". And maybe without the "strong" as well. What was the point of that? Actually, I think I'll write my own (4b). The ratio f/K where f is the number of consonant intervals within the scale and K is the total number of intervals in the scale, excluding unisons. So for 5-limit diatonic, we have 7 thirds and 6 fourths, plus octave complements. So f/K is 13/21. For 7-limit decimal, 10 2-steps, 3 3-steps, 4 4-steps and 10 5-steps plus complements for everything except 5-steps, giving 44/90. For 11-limit neutral thirds, of course, we have 100%. I think K=k*(k-1). If you are going to use Rothenberg and Lumma stability as alternatives, Lumma stability should be given more weight. It tends to give lower values, doesn't it? I'd also like to see a "tonality" category, where we have something about those characteristic dissonances, and the smallest sufficient (and distinctive) subsets. Efficiency is really the opposite of this. Both are important. Graham
Message: 4643 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:13 +0 Subject: Re: My Approach Generalized Diatonicity From: graham@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20020416105902.00a9ad20@xxxxx.xxx> Carl Lumma wrote: > I generally think of 7:6, 7:5 as barely strong enough, and 10:7 too > weak, > to be considered consonant dyads. > > Which scale are you talking about loosing (5) in? The 7 from decimal. The two tritones are the characteristic dissonances in the fourth/fifth category. There could always be a statistical definition where only two of the 6-steps are considered to be 3:2 fifths, but not always the same two. But the same would then have to apply to the 3-steps being 5:4. > > 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 > > 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 > > 4 5 4 5 4 4 4 > > 6 6 6 6 5 6 5 > > 7 8 7 7 7 7 7 > > 9 9 8 9 8 9 8 > > > >In the top row, 2 could be 9:8 or 8:7, and in the second row it could > be >8:7 or 7:6. > > Granted for the sake of argument... > > >So that means 2 and 3 are both consonances, and 2/7 is the > >only interval class where 2/10 is this consonance. > > ?? You said one interval class has to contain two consonances that aren't consonant anywhere else. So, the thirds here could be either 5:4 or 7:6. 6:5 isn't allowed because it's too close to 7:6, which is a different interval class, and you lose tonalness. 8:7 isn't allowed because it's ambiguous with the seconds. This is actually fairly reasonable in practice. The 2-step third will tend to be larger than the 2-steps second for melodic reasons. This will increase the statistical stability, but still leave the ambiguity where you need it. > >If major thirds and perfect fifths are both legal consonances, why not > >put them together? > > You've lost me completely. I've decided above that 5:4 and 3:2 are the consonances. Tertian harmony does seem to work best for 7 note diatonicity. However, put them together and you see a 6:5 as well. With a fixed decimal scale this wouldn't happen. With flexible notes, the 6:5 pulls against the decimalness of the scale, because it's a diminished interval. It doesn't affect propriety, but should still be avoided melodically. In harmony, you have to make sure it isn't too obvious. So, like fourths in Common Practice harmony, don't put it in the bass. The 7:9 in a 6:7:9 chord is even worse, because it isn't even a kind of third. But 4:6:7 looks okay, shame it only exists in one place. Although that is useful for cadences. > >The propriety grids are like this: > > > > 3 5 5 5 3 5 5 > > 8 10 10 8 8 10 8 > >13 15 13 13 13 13 13 > >18 18 18 18 16 18 18 > >21 23 23 21 21 23 23 > >26 28 26 26 26 28 26 > > Isn't this just the diatonic scale? Yes, but not the just diatonic scale. > > 4 7 6 7 4 7 6 > >11 13 13 11 11 13 10 > >17 20 17 18 17 17 17 > >24 24 24 24 21 24 23 > >28 31 30 28 28 30 30 > >35 37 34 35 34 37 34 > > Doesn't look very consonant. It's consonant enough. I've found quite a few alternatives. They all have something wrong with them. None have high efficiency. The advantage of using 10 fuzzy pitch classes is that you can have all of them at once, and maintain the sense of a 10 note chromatic. Also that you have all those 11-limit intervals when you want them. > >>>If those consonances can be ambiguous, it does open up new ways of > >>>interpreting the 7 from 10 scale, which is what I'm looking at now. > >> > >> You mean Rothenberg ambiguous, or ambiguous in the sense that they > >> may have more than one harmonic series representation? > > > >Rothenberg ambiguous. > > I'll be anxious to see the results. If we allow 7-limit consonance, thirds and fourths become the intervals with two kinds of consonance. That means 7:8 could be single consonance for seconds, unfortunately it isn't in the majority. But now you've dropped the requirement for a characteristic dissonance, that isn't a problem. However, the way you've worded (2b) means 7:8, 5:7 and 7:10 still drop out because they're ambiguous. > >> Wrong! That's what diatonicity is all about -- tying scale objects > >> to harmonic objects. There are a million ways to have lots of > >> different consonances, but very few to have them make sense in terms > >> of scale intervals. > > > >But isn't that what stability gives us? > > No, stability ties acoustic objects with scales objects. Diatonicity > restricts things further to acoustic objects which are harmonious. Why are you assuming harmonious acoustic objects can't be ambiguous? The tritone plays an important part in tonal harmony because it's rare and ambiguous. Why can't a consonance take on that role, and dissonances tie the harmony to the scale? Graham
Message: 4644 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:47:56 Subject: Re: the first six criteria From: genewardsmith --- In tuning-math@y..., Carl Lumma <carl@l...> wrote: > Scales that pass all of the first six criteria > 08- Gene Smith's Euclidean-reduced scale in 46-tet > [0 3 12 15 22 27 34 37 46] > 3. efficiency 0.55 > 4. strictly proper > 5. yes; 7th is 5:3 in 6 of 8 modes > 6. yes; 4th is 5:4 or 4:3 in 7 of 8 modes This isn't really Euclidean reduced--I took the h8+v7 map, Euclidean reduced that, mapped it to 46-et, and then permuted the steps to get this scale. Maybe it could be called "Star" since it is related to Starling.
Message: 4648 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:01:03 Subject: method for finding balanced sums? From: Carl Lumma All; Say I have a list of positive integers, and I sum them up. Is there a method for assigning signs to them so their sum is as close to zero (either positive or negative) as possible? -Carl
Message: 4649 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:37:50 Subject: Re: more objective From: Carl Lumma >(1b) Immediately fails for any scale without a 3:2. Can we have a range >of recognisable fifths? You're allowed to approximate intervals, according to harmonic entropy. >What does "scales with only 1 or 2 unique keys" mean? Is this like >whole tone and octatonic scales? Yep. >I thought something like (2b) should be added, but why mix it with >stability? I don't, I mix it with efficiency. >After "Note that stability only applies to proper scales" Rothenberg >goes on to say "Also, it does not really measure the degree to which a >motif at a given pitch of a scale may be identified with (i.e. >recognized as composed of the same interval as) a `modal transposition' >of that motif to another pitch in the scale (i.e. a sequence)." Huh- what does he suggest instead? >Actually, I think I'll write my own (4b). The ratio f/K where f is >the number of consonant intervals within the scale and K is the total >number of intervals in the scale, excluding unisons. That would be a rough measure of how consonant the scale is. >If you are going to use Rothenberg and Lumma stability as alternatives, >Lumma stability should be given more weight. It tends to give lower >values, doesn't it? Yes. I've been thinking about normalizing all these to their values in the diatonic scale. >I'd also like to see a "tonality" category, where we have something >about those characteristic dissonances, and the smallest sufficient >(and distinctive) subsets. Efficiency is really the opposite of this. >Both are important. I punish ambiguous keys, and I allow mode recognition by strong consonance. Other than that, I'm not willing to do anything for tonalness. -Carl
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