Bohlen-Pierce Scale Structures
1. Fundamental BP scales
Harmonic scale essentials
Bohlen-Pierce
Scale Structures
1. Fundamental
BP scales
Harmonic scale essentials
Development of the just chromatic scale
Continued Fractions and BP
A "Pythagorean" approach
The equally tempered scale
The reference BP diatonic mode
Fokker lattice representation of BP
What about BP tonality?
2. BP modes
Basic BP diatonic modes
Kees van Prooijen's 7-step modes
3. BP tunings
Dave Benson's BP Pythagorean tuning
Dan Stearns' BP "meantone" rotations
Dave Keenan's minimum error approach
Paul Erlich's TOP paradigm approach
John
"Longitude" Harrison and BP
4. More than 13 steps per tritave
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