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You'll see that intervals of 23edo come within 5 cents of 9/8; 3 cents of 23/16; 2 cents of 33/32, 21/16, 35/32, & 55/32; & 1 cent of 17/16, 79/64, & 117/64. (<**And let's also note the excellent representations of 14/11 and its inverse, 11/7!!! In fact they might be considered good enought that a chain of 23 such intervals would be a reasonable way to acoustically tune this temperament** -- AKJ) Of course, it also has perfect unisons & octaves, by definition. This means we could potentially build a very strange (& slightly mistuned) harmonic chord which, reduced to within one octave, we could write as frequency ratios 64:66:68:70:72:79:84:92:110:117. I find this cluster a little hard to listen to, whether tuned to JI or 23edo, so I'd like to consider smaller chords, triads & tetrads, as a starting point. | You'll see that intervals of 23edo come within 5 cents of 9/8; 3 cents of 23/16; 2 cents of 33/32, 21/16, 35/32, & 55/32; & 1 cent of 17/16, 79/64, & 117/64. (<**And let's also note the excellent representations of 14/11 and its inverse, 11/7!!! In fact they might be considered good enought that a chain of 23 such intervals would be a reasonable way to acoustically tune this temperament** -- AKJ) Of course, it also has perfect unisons & octaves, by definition. This means we could potentially build a very strange (& slightly mistuned) harmonic chord which, reduced to within one octave, we could write as frequency ratios 64:66:68:70:72:79:84:92:110:117. I find this cluster a little hard to listen to, whether tuned to JI or 23edo, so I'd like to consider smaller chords, triads & tetrads, as a starting point. | ||
I'd also like to set an arbitrary limit on how high up the harmonic series we will go. I'll set my limit at the 23rd harmonic. I'll consider harmonics 1, 9, 17, 21, & 23, excluding (at least for now) 33, 55, 79, & 117. Those sonorities could no doubt prove useful to a thoughful composer, but for this study, I'll leave them out. | I'd also like to set an arbitrary limit on how high up the harmonic series we will go. I'll set my limit at the 23rd harmonic. I'll consider harmonics 1, 9, 17, 21, & 23, excluding (at least for now) 33, 35, 55, 79, & 117. Those sonorities could no doubt prove useful to a thoughful composer, but for this study, I'll leave them out. | ||
Thus we produce ten triads, five tetrads, & one quintad, 16 chords, which, with their inversions (given), doubles to 32 chords. I've written then in a closed position (within one octave), & I recommend trying different voicings. Moving chord tones up & down by octaves, you can unmuddy a muddy chord. | Thus we produce ten triads, five tetrads, & one quintad, 16 chords, which, with their inversions (given), doubles to 32 chords. I've written then in a closed position (within one octave), & I recommend trying different voicings. Moving chord tones up & down by octaves, you can unmuddy a muddy chord. | ||
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You'll see that intervals of 23edo come within 5 cents of 9/8; 3 cents of 23/16; 2 cents of 33/32, 21/16, 35/32, &amp; 55/32; &amp; 1 cent of 17/16, 79/64, &amp; 117/64. (&lt;<strong>And let's also note the excellent representations of 14/11 and its inverse, 11/7!!! In fact they might be considered good enought that a chain of 23 such intervals would be a reasonable way to acoustically tune this temperament</strong> -- AKJ) Of course, it also has perfect unisons &amp; octaves, by definition. This means we could potentially build a very strange (&amp; slightly mistuned) harmonic chord which, reduced to within one octave, we could write as frequency ratios 64:66:68:70:72:79:84:92:110:117. I find this cluster a little hard to listen to, whether tuned to JI or 23edo, so I'd like to consider smaller chords, triads &amp; tetrads, as a starting point.<br /> | You'll see that intervals of 23edo come within 5 cents of 9/8; 3 cents of 23/16; 2 cents of 33/32, 21/16, 35/32, &amp; 55/32; &amp; 1 cent of 17/16, 79/64, &amp; 117/64. (&lt;<strong>And let's also note the excellent representations of 14/11 and its inverse, 11/7!!! In fact they might be considered good enought that a chain of 23 such intervals would be a reasonable way to acoustically tune this temperament</strong> -- AKJ) Of course, it also has perfect unisons &amp; octaves, by definition. This means we could potentially build a very strange (&amp; slightly mistuned) harmonic chord which, reduced to within one octave, we could write as frequency ratios 64:66:68:70:72:79:84:92:110:117. I find this cluster a little hard to listen to, whether tuned to JI or 23edo, so I'd like to consider smaller chords, triads &amp; tetrads, as a starting point.<br /> | ||
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I'd also like to set an arbitrary limit on how high up the harmonic series we will go. I'll set my limit at the 23rd harmonic. I'll consider harmonics 1, 9, 17, 21, &amp; 23, excluding (at least for now) 33, 55, 79, &amp; 117. Those sonorities could no doubt prove useful to a thoughful composer, but for this study, I'll leave them out.<br /> | I'd also like to set an arbitrary limit on how high up the harmonic series we will go. I'll set my limit at the 23rd harmonic. I'll consider harmonics 1, 9, 17, 21, &amp; 23, excluding (at least for now) 33, 35, 55, 79, &amp; 117. Those sonorities could no doubt prove useful to a thoughful composer, but for this study, I'll leave them out.<br /> | ||
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Thus we produce ten triads, five tetrads, &amp; one quintad, 16 chords, which, with their inversions (given), doubles to 32 chords. I've written then in a closed position (within one octave), &amp; I recommend trying different voicings. Moving chord tones up &amp; down by octaves, you can unmuddy a muddy chord.<br /> | Thus we produce ten triads, five tetrads, &amp; one quintad, 16 chords, which, with their inversions (given), doubles to 32 chords. I've written then in a closed position (within one octave), &amp; I recommend trying different voicings. Moving chord tones up &amp; down by octaves, you can unmuddy a muddy chord.<br /> | ||