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# Instruments in different ranges have different pitches available to them. This allows for more interesting polyphony. | # Instruments in different ranges have different pitches available to them. This allows for more interesting polyphony. | ||
# You can play musical scales without repeating at any intervals and it have infinite notes too! | # You can play musical scales without repeating at any intervals and it have infinite notes too! | ||
[[Gallery of nonoctave scales]] | |||
Composers and theorists known for their work in nonoctave scales include [[X. J. Scott]] (see: [[http://www.nonoctave.com]]); [[Wendy Carlos]]; [[Gary Morrison]]; [[Carlo Serafini]]; and [[Heinz Bohlen]], [[John Pierce]], and [[Kees van Prooijen]], the latter trio being associated with the [[Bohlen-Pierce]] scale.</pre></div> | Composers and theorists known for their work in nonoctave scales include [[X. J. Scott]] (see: [[http://www.nonoctave.com]]); [[Wendy Carlos]]; [[Gary Morrison]]; [[Carlo Serafini]]; and [[Heinz Bohlen]], [[John Pierce]], and [[Kees van Prooijen]], the latter trio being associated with the [[Bohlen-Pierce]] scale.</pre></div> | ||
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Here are only a few reasons. Add your own!<br /> | Here are only a few reasons. Add your own!<br /> | ||
<ol><li>The 2/1 octave is distractingly consonant, and gets in the way when exploring xenharmonic resources. If your music is seeking to explore new consonances, then why would you keep the oldest, simplest consonance in the system? It is too easy to fall back on the octave and resolve everything unfamiliar to a plain old characterless octave.</li><li>The 2/1 octave is boring; it doesn't even sound like a distinct interval!</li><li>Octave-repetition is too <a class="wiki_link" href="/redundancy">redundant</a>. In a nonoctave scale, each part of the range offers new intervals. Thus, with only a few tones, a great variety is possible. In an octave-repeating scale, once the octave is reached, there is nothing new to be had.</li><li>Octave stretching and compressing turns boring vanilla octaves into exciting, vibrant, active near-octaves. Near-octaves may provide that function of octave-redundancy, while not introducing the distracting consonance of a 2/1.</li><li>Instruments in different ranges have different pitches available to them. This allows for more interesting polyphony.</li><li>You can play musical scales without repeating at any intervals and it have infinite notes too!</li></ol><br /> | <ol><li>The 2/1 octave is distractingly consonant, and gets in the way when exploring xenharmonic resources. If your music is seeking to explore new consonances, then why would you keep the oldest, simplest consonance in the system? It is too easy to fall back on the octave and resolve everything unfamiliar to a plain old characterless octave.</li><li>The 2/1 octave is boring; it doesn't even sound like a distinct interval!</li><li>Octave-repetition is too <a class="wiki_link" href="/redundancy">redundant</a>. In a nonoctave scale, each part of the range offers new intervals. Thus, with only a few tones, a great variety is possible. In an octave-repeating scale, once the octave is reached, there is nothing new to be had.</li><li>Octave stretching and compressing turns boring vanilla octaves into exciting, vibrant, active near-octaves. Near-octaves may provide that function of octave-redundancy, while not introducing the distracting consonance of a 2/1.</li><li>Instruments in different ranges have different pitches available to them. This allows for more interesting polyphony.</li><li>You can play musical scales without repeating at any intervals and it have infinite notes too!</li></ol><br /> | ||
<a class="wiki_link" href="/Gallery%20of%20nonoctave%20scales">Gallery of nonoctave scales</a><br /> | |||
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Composers and theorists known for their work in nonoctave scales include <a class="wiki_link" href="/X.%20J.%20Scott">X. J. Scott</a> (see: <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.nonoctave.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.nonoctave.com</a>); <a class="wiki_link" href="/Wendy%20Carlos">Wendy Carlos</a>; <a class="wiki_link" href="/Gary%20Morrison">Gary Morrison</a>; <a class="wiki_link" href="/Carlo%20Serafini">Carlo Serafini</a>; and <a class="wiki_link" href="/Heinz%20Bohlen">Heinz Bohlen</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/John%20Pierce">John Pierce</a>, and <a class="wiki_link" href="/Kees%20van%20Prooijen">Kees van Prooijen</a>, the latter trio being associated with the <a class="wiki_link" href="/Bohlen-Pierce">Bohlen-Pierce</a> scale.</body></html></pre></div> | Composers and theorists known for their work in nonoctave scales include <a class="wiki_link" href="/X.%20J.%20Scott">X. J. Scott</a> (see: <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.nonoctave.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.nonoctave.com</a>); <a class="wiki_link" href="/Wendy%20Carlos">Wendy Carlos</a>; <a class="wiki_link" href="/Gary%20Morrison">Gary Morrison</a>; <a class="wiki_link" href="/Carlo%20Serafini">Carlo Serafini</a>; and <a class="wiki_link" href="/Heinz%20Bohlen">Heinz Bohlen</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/John%20Pierce">John Pierce</a>, and <a class="wiki_link" href="/Kees%20van%20Prooijen">Kees van Prooijen</a>, the latter trio being associated with the <a class="wiki_link" href="/Bohlen-Pierce">Bohlen-Pierce</a> scale.</body></html></pre></div> | ||