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Message: 7976 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:36:51 Subject: Re: ennealimmal From: Manuel Op de Coul Carl wrote: >Manuel, is there a convenient way to get MOS-like scales with >non-octave periods in Scala? Sure, create them with PYTHAGOREAN specifying the period as formal octave, and then use EXTEND to change the number of tones. The SHOW DATA command now also shows whether repeating blocks have Myhill's property. >Am I correct that the first ennealimmal scale with an octave >is simply 9-equal, and the next is this 17-tone one... You probably mean 18-tone. The generator doesn't need to be exactly 50 cents, but if I understand your question correctly, yes. Manuel
Message: 7977 Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:24:14 Subject: Re: hey Paul From: Carl Lumma >> >Should I put up a web page? Dave, do you have an objection? >> >> Graham's catalog is neither complete or up to date, last I >> checked. >> >> The existence of a single resource is a lot to ask, I know... > >I'm perfectly willing to put up web pages of named temperaments. Then don't stop 'til the break of dawn! -Carl
Message: 7979 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:08:51 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: monz hi George (and Gene) --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "George D. Secor" <gdsecor@y...> wrote: > A systematic naming system should not be something that > would make things more complicated for the rest of us. > I could hardly imagine a professor in a microtonal music > course using "minus three, zero, zero, zero, one" as a name > for 26:27 when "13L-diesis" (which can even be shortened > to "13L") is so much simpler and clearer. Monzos have > their place as a specialized *notation* (which would also > be of benefit in explaining the names), but not as *names* > themselves. i see your point, and can agree with that. ... even tho *i* will always think of any rational interval as its monzo. (i guess that's self-evident, given the name of the term?) ;-) -monz
Message: 7980 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:32:59 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: monz hi George, --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "George D. Secor" <gdsecor@y...> wrote: > The monzo comma-naming system is so cumbersome > (i.e., unfriendly), that I can't imagine how anyone > could follow a name above the 11-limit unless it's > written down. Imagine trying to mention to someone > in spoken conversation that you're trying to decide > whether to use the symbol for "<-6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1> > or <6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1>" in a composition -- are > you expecting me to be mentally prepared to count all > those zeros so I know what prime number you mean when > you finally get to the "1" that matters? this is an interesting and good point. in fact, over the years of working in extended-JI, i've pretty much come to the conclusion that there are so many notes available in even a rather compact 11-limit euler-genus, that via xenharmonic bridging, that system can imply many higher-prime ratios. in particular, i've noticed that lots of 11-limit ratios sound very similar to nearby 13-limit ratios. if one accepts this aspect of my theory, then monzos can easily be used to name all the relevant 11-limit kommas. on the other hand, the main reason i came up with the idea of using monzos to represent prime-factored ratios was that i wanted to avoid both having to always specify the primes, and also to avoid superscripts. at the time i originally thought of the monzo idea, i was working in 19-limit, and it seemed a easier to me to specify, to pick a totally random example, 133:72 as [-3, -2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1] (with the prime-factors 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19 understood) than to write is out as 2^-3 * 3^-2 * 7^1 * 19^1. > The problem is, the "name" (if you can call it that) > emphasizes *powers* rather than *primes*, so it tends > to get rather cryptic. when one works with the same set of prime-factors over and over again, one very easily gets used to remembering the primes which underly the monzo. and as i've pointed out before, the monzo allows direct visualization of the lattice, which in turn helps in comprehension of the structure of the entire tuning system. i came up with the monzo idea based on analogy with our regular numbering system. it doesn't take too long for one to learn, whether in school or in everyday life, that, for example, the number 133 is a monzo-like representation of (10^2)*1 + (10^1)*3 + (10^0)*3. the regular arabic numeral is a nice compact way of expressing what would look like a rather complicated mathematical expression if it were written out in full. but once one learns how it works, the long version is never need anymore. anyway, i'll get off my soapbox now. i've already agreed that for purposes of naming beyond 11-limit, the prime system is better than the monzo system. but i will maintain that for 3-, 5-, 7-, and 11-limit, the monzo system works just fine. -monz
Message: 7982 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:18:15 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: monz hi George, --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "George D. Secor" <gdsecor@y...> wrote: > --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "monz" <monz@a...> wrote: > > > > ... even tho *i* will always think of any rational > > interval as its monzo. > > > > (i guess that's self-evident, given the name of the term?) > > > > ;-) > > Oh, dear! Now I fear that if someone brings up the > word "secor" in a tuning context, they'll too readily > associate that with the term "irrational". ;-) > > --George oh, not necessarily! in a series of old posts, most informatively this one: Yahoo groups: /tuning/message/23195 * i presented a "rational canasta" tuning. the express purpose of this was to be able to map the canasta scale to the computer keyboard in the old (JustMusic) version of my software, which was not able to accept irrational pitches. in my "rational canasta" tuning, a secor is: <3,5,7,11,13>-monzo = <-4, -1, 0, 1, -1> ratio = 5632:5265 = ~116.657 cents this is only ~0.0101 cent less than 2^(7/72), the "standard" secor. and of course many other rational secors could be found. i mentioned in one of those old posts the irony of having to find a rational tuning which approximated the subset of the irrational 72edo MIRACLE, which in turn provides manifold approximations of rational JI intervals ... and even mentioned how it conjured up Escher images in my mind. and in fact, with regard to my original comment you quoted, i also think of many irrational intervals in terms of their monzos ... even tho many folks here find that to be pointless since irrational intervals can be prime-factored in an infinite number of ways. but i find it useful, for example, to see the generator "5th" of 1/4-comma meantone as the [2,3,5]-monzo [0, 0, 1/4], or that of 2/7-comma meantone as [1/7, -1/7, 2/7]. i just wrote "rational" to avoid having to go into details like this ... but now you've gone and forced to do it anyway! :) -monz
Message: 7984 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 21:01:14 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: Paul Erlich --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "monz" <monz@a...> wrote: > in my "rational canasta" tuning, a secor is: > > <3,5,7,11,13>-monzo = <-4, -1, 0, 1, -1> > ratio = 5632:5265 > = ~116.657 cents > > this is only ~0.0101 cent less than 2^(7/72), the > "standard" secor. though i know you wanted to use the 72-equal secor, the "standard" secor is (as you correctly state on The Proxomitron Reveals... * arts.org/dict/secor.htm) (18/5)^(1/19) = ~116.7156 cents.
Message: 7988 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:24:37 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: Paul Erlich --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "George D. Secor" <gdsecor@y...> wrote: > BTW, have you ever tried collapsing an 11-limit lattice into 2 > dimensions by mapping 11/8 to <10, 5>? you're probably referring to the 3-5-11 lattice? the full 11-limit lattice is at least 3 dimensional if you use one "xenharmonic bridge" as above. for the 3-5-11 case, this choice (184528125:184549376) is probably a very good one. for the full 11- limit case, 9800:9801 is probably better for most purposes, since it's both a little smaller (in cents) and much simpler (i.e., shorter in the lattice). sorry if this duplicates a previous message; that one didn't seem to show up . . .
Message: 7989 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:02:04 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: Paul Erlich --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "George D. Secor" <gdsecor@y...> wrote: > BTW, have you ever tried collapsing an 11-limit lattice into 2 > dimensions by mapping 11/8 to <10, 5>? a single "xenharmonic bridge" like this would only collapse the 4- dimensional 11-limit lattice into 3 dimensions, or a 5-dimensional version (with factors of 2 shown) into 4 dimensions, wouldn't it? the unison vector in this case would be 184528125:184549376, which is a good one, but 9800:9801 is both smaller and simpler . . . maybe you're specifically talking about the lattice with no 7 axis?
Message: 7990 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:37:28 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: monz hi paul, --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "Paul Erlich" <perlich@a...> wrote: > --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "monz" <monz@a...> wrote: > > > in my "rational canasta" tuning, a secor is: > > > > <3,5,7,11,13>-monzo = <-4, -1, 0, 1, -1> > > ratio = 5632:5265 > > = ~116.657 cents > > > > this is only ~0.0101 cent less than 2^(7/72), the > > "standard" secor. > > though i know you wanted to use the 72-equal secor, > the "standard" secor is (as you correctly state on > Definitions of tuning terms: secor, (c) 2001 by Joe Monzo *) > (18/5)^(1/19) = ~116.7156 cents. OK, thanks for pointing that out. so my "rational secor" is only a little more than half a cent smaller than that. -monz
Message: 7991 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:52:35 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: monz hi George, --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "George D. Secor" <gdsecor@y...> wrote: > Loocs like you kaught something from Dave Ceenan. ;-) i usually try to follow suggestions for standardization ... unless i very strongly disagree, as i did with Sims 72edo notation. > BTW, have you ever tried collapsing an 11-limit lattice into 2 > dimensions by mapping 11/8 to <10, 5>? no, i never did that. but i did do this: Yahoo groups: /tuning/message/1372 * Yahoo groups: /tuning/message/1380 * (if you're viewing on the stupid Yahoo web interface, you'll have to forward them to your email account to view the lattices properly.) > Yes, I can readily appreciate this sort of shorthand. > However, its weakness as a naming system lies in the > fact that you need a good way to verbalize what you're > seeing. which is the main reason why i agree with you about names in general. but i do think that for 11-limit, using only 4 exponents, it's not so bad. > Something that you might want to consider is replacement > of the comma following the powers of 3, 11, and 19 (and > every 3rd prime thereafter) by a semicolon (to serve as > a place marker, similar in function to a decimal point > and commas in decimal numbers), so that 133:72 could be > written as either [-3, -2; 0, 1, 0; 0, 0, 1] or > [-2; 0, 1, 0; 0, 0, 1]. well, since that last monzo doesn't use 2, it should be written (following the convention proposed by Gene and accepted by me) with angle brackets instead of square: <-2; 0, 1, 0; 0, 0, 1>. anyway, yes, that's an excellent idea ... except that i was never crazy about adding the commas in the first place. i still think i prefer the nice clean look of a single space and nothing else, separating the numbers in the monzo. -monz
Message: 7992 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:39:33 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: monz --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "George D. Secor" <gdsecor@y...> wrote: > > i just wrote "rational" to avoid having to go into > > details like this ... but now you've gone and forced > > to do it anyway! :) > > Hey, you're taking my reply much too seriously. i know ... but still, i thought of it before i wrote my original post, so i figured that since you brought it up (albeit as a joke) i might as well give a nice fat response. :) ... isn't it so much nicer when communication here is this pleasant? -monz
Message: 7995 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:21:40 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: monz hi George, --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "George D. Secor" <gdsecor@y...> wrote: > I agree with Gene that using the conventional spelling for > the new (defined-range) meaning of comma and the unconventional > spelling for the commonly accepted (i.e., generic) meaning for > a comma would not be a good idea, so I advise that the new > spelling be dropped. (It's not required for a comma-naming > system to work, anyway.) OK. > > <snip> > > [regarding the format of monzos:] > > ... Why not modify my suggestion above by dropping the > commas entirely, then changing the semicolons that > remain back to commas, so that the above example (133:72) > would be done this way: > [-3 -2, 0 1 0, 0 0 1] or > [-2, 0 1 0, 0 0 1]. > This makes the grouping by threes more obvious (and the > higher primes much easier to locate), and angle brackets > would no longer be necessary. i like that a lot! in fact, i find it very interesting that group the primes by threes like this also keeps them in bunches that make sense to me in terms of how i've used them and theorized about them myself! i.e., 3 is obviously extremely important both historically and theoretically, and thus deserves to be isolated by itself (or grouped with 2, if 2 is included). the next comma appears after 11, and earlier in this thread i discussed the idea that 11-limit can be a kind of boundary. Partch thought so too. (but please, don't anyone make too much of this comment.) the next comma appears after 19, which i myself used as a limit from about 1988-98. the next comma appears after 31, which is the highest limit Ben Johnston has used in his music. interesting. -monz
Message: 7996 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:19:24 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: Paul Erlich --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "monz" <monz@a...> wrote: > i.e., 3 is obviously extremely important both historically > and theoretically, and thus deserves to be isolated by itself > (or grouped with 2, if 2 is included). > > the next comma appears after 11, and earlier in this thread > i discussed the idea that 11-limit can be a kind of boundary. > Partch thought so too. (but please, don't anyone make too > much of this comment.) > > the next comma appears after 19, which i myself used as > a limit from about 1988-98. > > the next comma appears after 31, which is the highest limit > Ben Johnston has used in his music. > > interesting. so the primes are arranged as 2 3 , 5 7 11 , 13 17 19 , 23 29 31 , 37 41 43 , 47 53 59 , 61 67 71 looks like the next comma after 31 makes sense too -- isn't 43 the highest limit used by george secor at least in some context?
Message: 7997 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:25:44 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: Paul Erlich no reply, george? --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "Paul Erlich" <perlich@a...> wrote: > --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "George D. Secor" <gdsecor@y...> > wrote: > > > BTW, have you ever tried collapsing an 11-limit lattice into 2 > > dimensions by mapping 11/8 to <10, 5>? > > you're probably referring to the 3-5-11 lattice? > > the full 11-limit lattice is at least 3 dimensional if you use > one "xenharmonic bridge" as above. for the 3-5-11 case, this choice > (184528125:184549376) is probably a very good one. for the full 11- > limit case, 9800:9801 is probably better for most purposes, since > it's both a little smaller (in cents) and much simpler (i.e., shorter > in the lattice). > > sorry if this duplicates a previous message; that one didn't seem to > show up . . .
Message: 7999 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:54:55 Subject: Re: Eponyms From: Paul Erlich --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@s...> wrote: > --- In tuning-math@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx "George D. Secor" <gdsecor@y...> > wrote: > > > I don't have the resources to do that very readily. Wouldn't > putting > > them in order of product complexity (discarding any with factors > > above some particular prime limit) accomplish this? > > Not really; however we can simply take everything below a certain > prime limit and below a limit for what I call "epipermicity", i think you mean "epimericity" > which > is, for p/q>1 in reduced form, log(p-q)/log(q). It can be shown this > gives a finite list of commas if the epimermicity limit is less than > one. i'll try 7-limit some other time, but since i still have my 5-limit list in matlab's memory, here's the top rankings (for intervals < 600 cents) by epimericity -- 1/1 shows up as best but actually its epimericity is 0/0 so is undefined: numerator denominator 1 1 16 15 6 5 81 80 4 3 9 8 10 9 5 4 25 24 27 25 128 125 32805 32768 250 243 135 128 2048 2025 15625 15552 256 243 648 625 32 27 3125 3072 75 64 78732 78125 6561 6400 20000 19683 125 108 27 20 32 25 25 18 625 576 1600000 1594323 144 125 393216 390625 256 225 16875 16384 2187 2048 81 64 2109375 2097152 800 729 6561 6250 1125 1024 3125 2916 100 81 531441 524288 45 32 20480 19683 2187 2000 729 640 2048 1875 243 200 16384 15625 125 96 729 625 1076168025 1073741824 3456 3125 6115295232 6103515625 1224440064 1220703125 1594323 1562500 1990656 1953125 274877906944 274658203125 262144 253125 625 512 10485760000 10460353203 1215 1024 62500 59049 7629394531250 7625597484987 78125 73728 273375 262144 4096 3645 67108864 66430125 129140163 128000000 2500 2187 162 125 1638400 1594323 531441 512000 4194304 4100625 82944 78125 32768 30375 390625000 387420489 244140625 241864704 390625 373248 9765625 9565938 1953125 1889568 4294967296 4271484375 18225 16384 625 486 34171875 33554432 2560 2187 768 625 140625 131072 31381059609 31250000000 9375 8192 etc. considering that i had numerators and denominators well in excess of 10^50 in the list, i'm inclined to believe gene that a given epimericity cutoff will yield a finite list. and it's a good list too -- i'm kind of pleased with this as a temperament ranking, with meantone very near the top, augmented, schismic, pelogic, diaschismic, blackwood, kleismic, and diminished forming a consecutive block of interesting and eminently useful systems (given their characteristic DE scales), while more unlikely choices for human music making, like semisuper, parakleismic, and ennealimmal, as well as many simpler systems with high error, fall further down -- and of course monstrosities like atomic don't appear at all. i wonder if even dave could stomach such a ranking -- the very simple temperaments with high error are easy enough to mentally toss out for the user seeking a certain goodness of approximation . . .
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