Re: OT: Music

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:12:51 -0800, Peter Clark <pc451@...> wrote:

>   I know this is pushing the boundaries of topicality, but would you
>mind giving a little lecture on different scales as a public service
>to all who are interested in a little conmusic to go with their
>conoperas or conrock. :) I noticed that you used a lot of different
>scales on your music page, and I must confess to a great deal of
>ignorance. Aside from ye olde octave, I only know about the pentatonic
>scale, and only a little about that.
>   :Peter
There's a good introduction to scales on one of my Jarrda pages, and it's
even on-topic!  See http://www.io.com/~hmiller/Jarda/music.html for a
series of examples of different scales and the Jarrda names for notes in
the various scales. It starts with the familiar 12-note scale and =
proceeds
through 19-note and 15-note scales to more unusual ones like Owen
Jorgensen's "Five and Seven Temperament", and even scales without octaves
(Wendy Carlos' Alpha scale and the exotic Pierce-Bohlen scale).

Hlererhoi, my latest attempt at a language, has a different =
classification
of intervals and note names:

douma   unison, 1/1, "do"
ghema   17/16
kema    small major second, 10/9
rema    large major second, 9/8, "re"
pima    8/7
gama    7/6
n=FCma  minor third, 19/16
m=FCma  minor third, 6/5
jama    11/9
mima    major third, 5/4, "mi"
hjima   9/7
fama    perfect fourth, 4/3, "fa"
vama    11/8
zhima   7/5
solma   perfect fifth, 3/2, "sol"
l=FCma  minor sixth, 8/5
hlama   13/8
lama    major sixth, 5/3, "la"
dj=FCma 7/4
tj=FCma minor seventh, 9/5
tyma    major seventh, 15/8, "ti"