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: If you focus on choosing intervals as representing different notes of your target ''without regard'' for the growing size of the implied denominator, then the denominator will often grow ''rapidly'' to absurd numbers, ''especially'' if you are repeatedly stacking the same interval to reach some of the notes.

Technically, this is a simplification of the observation, as you can take any incomplete harmodal neji and add some intervals that are "awkward" w.r.t the denominator to complete it and thus increase the denominator massively, but the scale will overall likely still sound pretty coherent, ''especially'' if those intervals simplify w.r.t other intervals of interest to the composer, so it is rather the spirit of the observation that your notes of interest should cohere with each-other within reason and that where they don't should ideally be intentional harmonic tensions in the scale accessible for musical use. This logic also shows why the line between [[neji]]s (in the general sense) and harmodal nejis (defined below) is even more "fuzzy" than one might initially think.

Technically, this is a simplification of the observation, as you can take any incomplete harmodal neji and add some intervals that are "awkward" w.r.t the denominator to complete it and thus increase the denominator massively, but the scale will overall likely still sound pretty coherent, ''especially'' if those intervals simplify w.r.t other intervals of interest to the composer, so it is rather the spirit of the observation that your notes of interest should cohere with each-other within reason and that where they don't should ideally be intentional harmonic tensions in the scale accessible for musical use. This logic also shows why the line between [[neji]]s (in the general sense) and '''harmodal nejis''' (defined below) is even more "fuzzy" than one might initially think.

==== Harmodal nejis ====

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 : If you focus on choosing intervals as representing different notes of your target ''without regard'' for the growing size of the implied denominator, then the denominator will often grow ''rapidly'' to absurd numbers, ''especially'' if you are repeatedly stacking the same interval to reach some of the notes.
-Technically, this is a simplification of the observation, as you can take any incomplete harmodal neji and add some intervals that are "awkward" w.r.t the denominator to complete it and thus increase the denominator massively, but the scale will overall likely still sound pretty coherent, ''especially'' if those intervals simplify w.r.t other intervals of interest to the composer, so it is rather the spirit of the observation that your notes of interest should cohere with each-other within reason and that where they don't should ideally be intentional harmonic tensions in the scale accessible for musical use. This logic also shows why the line between [[neji]]s (in the general sense) and harmodal nejis (defined below) is even more "fuzzy" than one might initially think.
+Technically, this is a simplification of the observation, as you can take any incomplete harmodal neji and add some intervals that are "awkward" w.r.t the denominator to complete it and thus increase the denominator massively, but the scale will overall likely still sound pretty coherent, ''especially'' if those intervals simplify w.r.t other intervals of interest to the composer, so it is rather the spirit of the observation that your notes of interest should cohere with each-other within reason and that where they don't should ideally be intentional harmonic tensions in the scale accessible for musical use. This logic also shows why the line between [[neji]]s (in the general sense) and '''harmodal nejis''' (defined below) is even more "fuzzy" than one might initially think.
 ==== Harmodal nejis ====