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    BohlenPierce scale (BP scale) is a musical tuning and scale, first described in the 1970s, that offers an alternative to the octave-repeating scales...
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    Bohlen–Pierce scale, which has thirteen steps in the twelfth. 833 cents scale BohlenPierce scale "Other Unusual Scales". The BohlenPierce Site. Retrieved...
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  • non-octave musical scales (alternative musical tunings and temperaments), many based on combination tones, including the BohlenPierce scale in 1972 (independently...
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  • to high pitch. Most scales are octave-repeating, meaning their pattern of notes is the same in every octave (the BohlenPierce scale is one exception)....
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    divide a different interval, like the equal-tempered version of the BohlenPierce scale, which divides the just interval of an octave and a fifth (ratio 3:1)...
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    co-discoverer of the non-octave musical scale that he later named the BohlenPierce scale. Many of Pierce's technical books were intended to introduce...
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    beats. Heinz Bohlen proposed what is now known as the BohlenPierce scale on the basis of combination tones, as well as the 833 cents scale. A resultant...
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    to the chromatic steps of the BohlenPierce scale in a piece called Just Her – Jester – Gesture. The BohlenPierce scale subdivides the just twelfth into...
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    scale Harry Partch's 43-tone scale BohlenPierce scale Alpha, beta, delta, and gamma scales of Wendy Carlos Quarter tone scale Thirteenth Sound 19 equal...
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  • John R. Pierce (1989). "The Bohlen-Pierce Scale", pp.165-66. Current Directions in Computer Music Research, Max V. Mathews and John R. Pierce, eds. MIT...
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    well with novel tunings such as the BohlenPierce scale. It is in use for ongoing research into microtonal scales by music researchers and composers,...
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  • cohomology BP, a variant of the Mazda B engine BohlenPierce scale, or B–P scale, a musical tuning and scale Black panther (disambiguation), multiple uses...
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    'beta', although a melodic diatonic scale is easily available." Alpha scale Beta scale Delta scale BohlenPierce scale Gamma chord Carlos, Wendy (1989–96)...
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  • She has composed using various equal temperaments, including the BohlenPierce scale: Stick Men (1991), Love Song, and Greater Good (2011). Other tunings...
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  • not bear his name, he independently discovered the Bohlen-Pierce scale, a non-octave-repeating scale based on the tritave and spectra containing odd harmonics...
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    list of musical scales and modes. Degrees are relative to the major scale. Bebop scale Chord-scale system Heptatonic scale Jazz scale List of chord progressions...
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  • system – Musical tuning system of 24 tones per octave and maqam BohlenPierce scale – Musical scale Continuum Fingerboard – Music performance controller and...
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    inversion of ⁠ 7 / 4 ⁠, i.e., ⁠8/7⁠ [Play]." BohlenPierce scale Beta scale Gamma scale Delta scale Harmonic scale Carlos, Wendy (1989–1996). Three asymmetric...
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  • include Richard Boulanger's "Solemn Song for Evening", using the Bohlen-Pierce scale. List of music software "Radio Drum". Ece.uvic.ca. 1997-06-23. Retrieved...
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  • "the field of sounds smaller than the twelve semitones of the tempered scale." Carrillo developed this theory in 1895 while he was experimenting with...
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  • now offers custom built NX system clarinets for sale. The Bohlen-Pierce scale' is a tone scale which divides the duodecimal into thirteen instead of twelve...
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  • of his composition Clang-Tint, "Purity", uses intervals from the BohlenPierce scale. Roads, Curtis (2015). Composing Electronic Music. Oxford University...
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  • {\textstyle {\sqrt[{12}]{531441/524288}}} ). The equal tempered BohlenPierce scale uses the interval of the thirteenth root of three ( 3 13 {\textstyle...
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    Lauten, Wendy Carlos, Ivor Darreg, and Paul Erlich.[citation needed] BohlenPierce scale Regular temperament Darreg, Ivor (May 1974). "Xenharmonic Bulletin...
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    621\,2701\times 1200=13.945\,524\,1627\end{aligned}}} (Play) The BohlenPierce delta scale is based on the tritave and the 7:5:3 "wide" triad (Play) and...
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    (0 3 6 9) circle from α as β is 'up'." 19 equal temperament BohlenPierce scale Gamma scale Milano, Dominic (November 1986). "A Many-Colored Jungle of...
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    theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century...
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    needed] Another example is the tritave play on clarinets of the BohlenPierce scale (3:1). Octave stretching is less apparent on large pianos which have...
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  • music include 22-EDO, 15-EDO, 10-EDO, 13 limit just intonation, the Bohlen-Pierce scale, Pelog tuning, and many others. Adam Hart of the University of Salford...
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  • pitches in an unfamiliar musical grammar or harmonic structure (the BohlenPierce scale), Western participants demonstrated increased recognition memory...
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