tons of new scale names
Added 2024-03-21 02:57:34 +0000 UTCI recently acquired a copy of a new theory book: "The Modal Method of Music" by Robert Bedwell. In it, Robert describes an interesting way to organize heptatonic scales in families governed by semitone alterations, and he provides a good practice regime for an instrumentalist wanting to get those scales into muscle memory.
Robert also gave thoughtful names to a whole lot of obscure heptatonic scales, and catalogued tons of exotic modes with sharp and flat accidental alterations.
He graciously granted me permission to import all those names into my collection -- 489 names! I like them because they have etymological purpose; names like Mercurial, Acerbic, Labyrinthine, Quixotic, Supine, Nomadic, Pacific... and many more.
If you peruse the website or use the scale finder, you'll find that Robert's scale names have replaced some of the scales that previously had one of the Zeitler or Dozenal names.
Lots of work going on. I'm in the midst of re-rendering the scale audio clips with a better piano sound. I did a lot of work on the book over the past month, mostly chasing down citations and trying to find the original texts behind scalar lore.
Thanks to the new Patrons who joined in the past few weeks. Your support keeps this whole endeavour afloat.
Cheers
Ian
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It should look like this https://imgur.com/a/P9vLai3
The Exciting Universe Of Music Theory
2024-03-28 11:38:08 +0000 UTCthat's disturbing --it's working OK for me... I did have to do some fancy manoeuvres to get accidental characters to render properly; instead of being a Unicode character, they are icons embedded in a font that I created myself. That's because Unicode doesn't have triple-sharp or triple-flat characters at all, and the font I've chosen for the website doesn't have glyphs for the double ones
The Exciting Universe Of Music Theory
2024-03-28 11:35:18 +0000 UTC
