Diamond function

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The Diamond can also be thought of as being formed by the common tone modulations of all the elements in a set. It is also known as a Lambdoma

The scale steps of the tonality diamond are superparticular ratios, but they are not very evenly distributed. Filling in the gaps, as Harry Partch did with the 11-limit diamond to create a constant structure for his famous Genesis scale, is one way to go about constructing a just intonation scale. A constant structure is where each occurrence of a ratio will always have the same number of scale steps. While this is not completely possible with the 11-limit diamond, Partch was able to do so except in two places. This makes his 43 tone scale related to a 41 tone constant structure with two alternates.

=Scales=
[[diamond5]]
[[diamond7]]
[[diamond9]]
[[diamond11]]
[[diamond13]]
[[diamond15]]

[[diamond9plus-marvel]]

=Music=
[[http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/micro/gene_ward_smith/Others/Oldani/GWS%20Scale%20Study-ModernJazzAtTheCrystalBall%20.mp3|Modern Jazz at the Crystal Ball]] by Norbert Oldani in the 7-limit diamond.
==see also== 
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonality_diamond|Tonality diamond -- Wikipedia]]

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The scale steps of the tonality diamond are superparticular ratios, but they are not very evenly distributed. Filling in the gaps, as Harry Partch did with the 11-limit diamond to create a constant structure for his famous Genesis scale, is one way to go about constructing a just intonation scale. A constant structure is where each occurrence of a ratio will always have the same number of scale steps. While this is not completely possible with the 11-limit diamond, Partch was able to do so except in two places. This makes his 43 tone scale related to a 41 tone constant structure with two alternates.<br />
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