Re: Yoon & Teoh: Correlation between composition and conlanging? ;)

In a message dated 2000/08/10 10:08:37 PM, torpet@PP.QNET.FI wrote:

>Anyhow, what about splitting the octave in five tones with an equal
>interval, and try doing something useful of that ? Could rule (this would be
a true
>pentatonic tonality, instead of the pentatonic scales (for instance CDEGA or
>CDD#GA (I think that's the C-minor pentatonic. Not sure though...)...
>
    It has been done! In fact many composers in recent years have being
working with all sorts of pentatonic scales - Equal, Unequal, Just
Intonation, Non-Equal/Non-Just, etc. ad infinitum besides pentatonic scales
from all over the world
(pentatonic scale tuning systems are the most numerous).

    Boy do ya need to check out the following website: <A
HREF="http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html
">microtonal</A>
    http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html


    Z