Modes ; Intonations (mostly Greek and Islamic)
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28/27, 8/7, 9/8 = Archytas diatonic & Ptolemy's diatonaion toniaion, & medieval organ -- 28/27, 36/35, 5/4 = Archytas enharmonic -- 16/15, 25/24, 6/5 = Didymus chromatic -- 20/ 19, 19/18, 6/5 = Erasthenes' chromatic -- 16/15, 9/8, 10/9 = Ptolemy's diatonic syntanon (intense). Old tonic, as written ; Recent tonic (as noticed by Gioseffo Zarlino, b. 1540 AD) -- 12/11, 11/10, 10/9 = Ptolemy's equable diatonic (still in use daily in Middle East) -- 18/17, 51/ 42, 20/27, 9/8, 12/11, 11/10, 10/9 = Byzantine "palace mode," 2nd plagal, 1st form, mixed tetrachords -- 16/15, 15/14, 7/6 = Al Farabi's syntonic chromatic -- 49/48, 8/7, 8/7 = Al Farabi's diatonic -- 40/39, 26/25, 5/4 - Ibn Sina's (Avicenna's) enharmonic -- 10/9, 36/35, 7/6 = Ibn Sina's diatonic malakon -- 16/15, 7/6, 15/14 = Turkish, "Zirgüle" -- 12/11, 11/10, 10/9, 9/8, 8/7 {14/13, 13/12}=7 /6 = Schlesinger's Greek Phrygian -- 171.4 cents, or 11/10 + = 7 tone equal temp., in constant use in S.E. Asia. tones 123 56 1; tones 12 456 1; tones 23 567 2 -- 9/8, 28/ 27, 8/7, 9/8, 28/27, 9/8, 8/7 = Chalmers' septimal trichordal (a variant of #1)
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- 1972
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Lou Harrison, Richard Dee, monochard, transfer harp, troubador harp, percussion
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1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in
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Improvisations on various modes and intonations
Instrumental music demonstrating different modes and tuning systems; primarily harp, with percussion, dulcimer, and a bowed string instrument
Lou Harrison's handwriting on container and on insert
Notes on insert by Lou Harrison
Recorded 1972
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Mms: 991001099619706535
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