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== Usage and history == | == Usage and history == | ||
The harmonic scale can be used as an alternative tuning for regular twelve-tone pianos to play spectral or [[otonal]] music, although it finds more regular use merely as a unique microtonal retuning of 12edo. Versions of the scale are known to have been used by composers [[Ezra Sims]], [http://www.ekmelic-music.org/en/person.php?n=RH Franz Richter Herf], [[Wendy Carlos]] in her ''Beauty | The harmonic scale can be used as an alternative tuning for regular twelve-tone pianos to play spectral or [[otonal]] music, although it finds more regular use merely as a unique microtonal retuning of 12edo. Versions of the scale are known to have been used by composers [[Ezra Sims]], [http://www.ekmelic-music.org/en/person.php?n=RH Franz Richter Herf], [[Wendy Carlos]] in her ''Beauty in the Beast'' (1986)<ref>Milano, Dominic (November 1986). [http://www.wendycarlos.com/other/PDF-Files/Kbd86Tunings*.pdf "A Many-Colored Jungle of Exotic Tunings"], ''Keyboard''.</ref> and [[Ben Johnston]] in ''Suite for Microtonal Piano'' (1978). | ||
== Scala file == | == Scala file == | ||