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Re: musical systems (was fictional worlds)

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Saturday, August 10, 2002, 3:13
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:30:07 +0100, bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...> wrote:

> --- Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote: >> Olaetian has words for different kinds of musical >> instruments. I >> actually drew crude pictures of some of them, and >> made notes on the >> pitch range of each one. > >how are they tuned ? do you use the twelve-degree >scale or modern western music, the 7 degree scale of >old western music, the 5-degree scale of eastern >music, or what ?
The drawings are from around 1980, before I knew anything about tuning beyond 12-note equal temperament. I have one brief sample of Olaetian music from then, which doesn't amount to much, but in 1988 I did a couple of arrangements of Olaetian music on the Amiga, including one based on this 1980 fragment (Kroçnardsklestj), which later ended up in a MIDI arrangement: http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/krocnardsklestj.mid
>btw, any vocabularly relating to all of this ? modes >of the scale, harmonic intervals, note names, &c.
In fact, Olaetian has a word for the mixolydian mode (xonik), but I can't find any of the others in the dictionary. I haven't thought much about Olaetian music, but some of the examples on the Jarda music page are based on more recent concultures. http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Jarda/music.html The "Mizarian Porcupine Opera" mentioned on the Jarda page was one of my early attempts at writing in 15-note equal temperament, one of two prominent scales used by Mizarians (22-note ET being the other one) which are compatible with a new system of tuning that has acquired the name "porcupine temperament". Mizarians also use other scales, but porcupine temperament is currently one of my favorite scales, in particular a subset of 15 notes from 37-ET. Now I'm thinking that the Mizarian scales are probably 15 and 22-note subsets of 37-ET, instead of the 15 and 22-note equal scales I was using before. For technical details of porcupine temperament, with a chord progression example, see this page: http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/temp-porcupine.html -- languages of Azir------> ---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/index.html>--- hmiller (Herman Miller) "If all Printers were determin'd not to print any @io.com email password: thing till they were sure it would offend no body, \ "Subject: teamouse" / there would be very little printed." -Ben Franklin

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