Cross-set scale: Difference between revisions

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The term ''cross-set'' goes back to [[Erv Wilson]].<ref name="Narushima 2017">Narushima, T. (2017). Microtonality and the tuning systems of Erv Wilson. Routledge.</ref>

== Notation ==

The notation "chord1 by chord2" has been proposed as shorthand in lists or tables. This is borrowed from previous use on the Xen Wiki where the second chord is an interval ([https://en.xen.wiki/w/1-11-13-15_by_4/3_bihexany example]).

== Example ==

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In combinatorics, this operation is called a [[wikipedia:Sumset|sumset]].

Subtlety: The cross-set of two ''chords'' is properly an unreduced chord, the sumset of two finite subsets of ~~the number line~~ <math>\mathbb{R},</math> whereas the cross-set of two ''scales'' with the same equave is ~~properly~~ the sumset of two finite subsets of ~~the circle whose circumference is the equave,~~ <math>\mathbb{R}/(\text{equave})\mathbb{Z}.</math> While you can theoretically take a cross-set of scales with incommensurable equaves, that requires thinking of the scales as infinite albeit periodically repeating subsets of <math>\mathbb{R}.</math> In fact, the resulting cross-set is dense in <math>\mathbb{R},</math> thus not ~~being of so much practicality~~.

Subtlety: The cross-set of two ''chords'' is properly an unreduced chord, the sumset of two finite subsets of <math>\mathbb{R},</math> whereas the cross-set of two ''scales'' with the same equave is best thought of as the sumset of two finite subsets of <math>\mathbb{R}/(\text{equave})\mathbb{Z}.</math> (While you can theoretically take a cross-set of scales with incommensurable equaves, that requires thinking of the scales as infinite albeit periodically repeating subsets of <math>\mathbb{R}.</math> In fact, the resulting cross-set is dense in <math>\mathbb{R},</math> thus not properly a scale.)

== Music ==

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 The term ''cross-set'' goes back to [[Erv Wilson]].<ref name="Narushima 2017">Narushima, T. (2017). Microtonality and the tuning systems of Erv Wilson. Routledge.</ref>
+== Notation ==
+The notation "chord1 by chord2" has been proposed as shorthand in lists or tables. This is borrowed from previous use on the Xen Wiki where the second chord is an interval ([https://en.xen.wiki/w/1-11-13-15_by_4/3_bihexany example]).
 == Example ==
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 In combinatorics, this operation is called a [[wikipedia:Sumset|sumset]].
-Subtlety: The cross-set of two ''chords'' is properly an unreduced chord, the sumset of two finite subsets of the number line <math>\mathbb{R},</math> whereas the cross-set of two ''scales'' with the same equave is properly the sumset of two finite subsets of the circle whose circumference is the equave, <math>\mathbb{R}/(\text{equave})\mathbb{Z}.</math> While you can theoretically take a cross-set of scales with incommensurable equaves, that requires thinking of the scales as infinite albeit periodically repeating subsets of <math>\mathbb{R}.</math> In fact, the resulting cross-set is dense in <math>\mathbb{R},</math> thus not being of so much practicality.
+Subtlety: The cross-set of two ''chords'' is properly an unreduced chord, the sumset of two finite subsets of <math>\mathbb{R},</math> whereas the cross-set of two ''scales'' with the same equave is best thought of as the sumset of two finite subsets of <math>\mathbb{R}/(\text{equave})\mathbb{Z}.</math> (While you can theoretically take a cross-set of scales with incommensurable equaves, that requires thinking of the scales as infinite albeit periodically repeating subsets of <math>\mathbb{R}.</math> In fact, the resulting cross-set is dense in <math>\mathbb{R},</math> thus not properly a scale.)
 == Music ==