Mailing list articles by Carl Lumma

Selected posts by Carl Lumma to the Yahoo! microtonal mailing lists.

2012

April

Triadic variety in MOS scales

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/104450?var=0

Magic[10] as a generalized diatonic

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/104434

January

The Diatonic Property and porcupine[7]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/102605

TE vs TOP

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/102562?var=0

Searching for subgroups

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/102507

Ranking temperaments

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/102282

2011

December

Systematic kernelnaming

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/102083

An incomplete history of subgroups

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/102058

August

Rank range and proper MOS

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101392
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101393
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101408
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101414
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101425

July

Rank-3 scales

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/19341
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/19352
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/19354
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/19360
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/19367
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/19371

June

Lumma stability

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/100319

May

Periodicity buzz and time-domain processing in human hearing

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/98941

Where theory falls short

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/99064

Criticism of TTSS

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/99106
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/99122
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/99126

Diatonic notations

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/99407?var=0&l=1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/99475?var=0&l=1

Lattice distance and chord progressions

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/99447?var=0&l=1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/99474?var=0&l=1

April

Complete list of just intonation dyads

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/97647?var=0&l=1

Little or no use of septimal harmony in doo-wop

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/98223

Functional harmony: Meaning and mechanism

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/98715

March

Grove's article on "temperament"

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96704

'Mashability'

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96640
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96663
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96692
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96721

Maqam intonation analysis

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96871
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96881
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96939
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96945
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96948
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96949
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96951
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96983
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/97002
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/97013

Chromatic Pairs

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/26424

February

Generalized diatonicity

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96339
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96374
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96402
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96525

Untwelve 2010 Review

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/25148
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/25180

Heterophony

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/25280
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/25357

Scale Sieve

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/18810

January

Brats ain't no thing

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95331

Dichotic listening and Periodicity Buzz

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95412
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95487

49:48

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95661?var=0&l=1

Pajara vs. meantone

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95826
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95833

Extended JI in Tanzania?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95924
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/96002

A MOS by any other name...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95939

The changing role of pitch in music

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/24278

Electronica and microtonality

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/24381

On 4:5:6:7 approximations

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/24728

Most well temperaments sound the same

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/24967

Roots and the blues

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/25011
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/25014
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/25046
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/25048

Substitutions

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/25108

Automatic just intonation

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/18529

1029

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/18559
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/18560

Best macro-ETs

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/18593

2010

December

Triadic entropy reproduces TOP tunings when linearly constrained

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94932
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94963

Triadic entropy is proportional to Tenney height for Just triads

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95227

Entropy of l=u triads is related to the badness of their vanishing comma

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95041

Triadic entropy vs. Cook & Fujisawa

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95077

Monte Carlo triadic entropy minimizer

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95028

Trilinear coordinates for tetradic entropy

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95144

5:6:7 vs. 6:8:9

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95162

Exotic temperaments containing 12-ET approximations

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95246

Rank 1 subgroup temperaments with integer basis elements

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95295

History of Pascal's triangle

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95075

Microtuning on Quora

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95082

Geocities archive available

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95126

CELT audio codec and psychoacoustic model

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95198

EverTune bridge for electric guitars

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/95264

November

Formula for fret division:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94198

Explaining regular mapping / father temperament:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94438?source=1&var=0&l=1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94447?var=0&l=1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94460?var=0&l=1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94482?var=0&l=1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94488?var=0&l=1

On Mike's "DC" concordance model

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94317
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94320
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94321?var=0&l=1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94340
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94695

More on triadic entropy:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94570
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94932

Exciting developments in keyboards:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94391
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94499
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94518
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94568
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94738
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94799
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/94802

October

Links to online resources related to Xenharmonikon:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93861

Contacted list founder and documented date of first post:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93936

Excavated Geocities URLs from archives:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93877

Answered FAQs:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93815

Pitch analysis of a Maqam Al-Iraqi recording excerpt:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93615

Ruminations on the meaning of "tonality":

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93929

including PDF score

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93940

and algorithmic method for creating tonal chord progressions

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93900

Provided recipe to compute triadic harmonic entropy:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93396
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93399
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93468
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93495

Comments on Thresholds of Discrimination (Vos, van Vianen):

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93512
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93524

Debunked dubious claims in ethnomusicology:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93584
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93595
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93639
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93642
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93658
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93677

Most instruments have perfectly harmonic timbres:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93770
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93781
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/93797

Fokker block approach for starling[11] scales:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/18305
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/18318
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning-math/message/18306?var=0&l=1