Harry Partch's 43-tone scale: Difference between revisions
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[[File:Harry Partch Institute-3.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The [[Quadrangularis Reversum]], one of Partch's instruments featuring the 43-tone scale]] | [[File:Harry Partch Institute-3.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The [[Quadrangularis Reversum]], one of Partch's instruments featuring the 43-tone scale]] | ||
The '''43-tone scale''' is a [[just intonation]] scale with 43 pitches in each [[octave]]. It is based on an eleven-limit tonality diamond, similar to the seven-limit diamond previously devised by [[Max Friedrich Meyer]]<ref>[http://www.chrysalis-foundation.org/Meyer-s_Diamond.htm "Musical Mathematics: Meyer's Diamond"], ''Chrysalis-Foundation.org''.</ref> and refined by [[Harry Partch]].<ref>Kassel, R. (2001, January 20). Partch, Harry. [https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/ ''Grove Music Online''].</ref> | The '''43-tone scale''' is a [[just intonation]] scale with 43 pitches in each [[octave]]. It is based on an eleven-limit [[tonality diamond]], similar to the seven-limit diamond previously devised by [[Max Friedrich Meyer]]<ref>[http://www.chrysalis-foundation.org/Meyer-s_Diamond.htm "Musical Mathematics: Meyer's Diamond"], ''Chrysalis-Foundation.org''.</ref> and refined by [[Harry Partch]].<ref>Kassel, R. (2001, January 20). Partch, Harry. [https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/ ''Grove Music Online''].</ref> | ||
See [[Partch 43]] for the scale as a scala file. | See [[Partch 43]] for the scale as a scala file. | ||