On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:19:54 -0400 (EDT) Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
A bit of trivia that some of you might or might not know: Anceint Greek theorists called our Ionian mode "Lydian". Their diatonic scales counted *downward* by the same intervals ours uses upward;
Or clockwise vs anticlockwise around the octave circle?
What I found interesting below is that scale equivilences turn out to be equal areas of the polygon so decribed. Am I understanding that right? Does it make sense?
http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/daver/Pubs/MyPDF/GeomHarm.pdf
which, like most mistakes, was perpetrated during the Middle Ages.
(Most other mistakes were perpetrated during the Bush era)
The latter being an attempt to recreate the former.