A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~ The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~ ...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~ My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Croissants
I recently gained entry into the On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences for the the sequence 1, 3, 7, 19, 55. It's probably the only entry in the Encyclopedia with a reference to Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two and priority should be assigned to Childs and Beck, but the sequence is also musically interesting. It suggests a family of tunings including 1/3-comma temperament (close to 19-tet) and the 55-tone temperament said to be favored by Telemann.
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