An American Gamelan

William Colvig

Volume 3

 

An Analysis of Ivor Darreg’s XF1, Volume 1, Number 12

B. McLaren

Volume 14, pp. 40-49

 

Anthracite Sweetheart (score)

Brian Hartzler

Volume 7+8

 

The Application of Rothenberg’s Pattern Recognition Model to the Structure of Tetrachords and Tetrachordal Scales

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 3

 

An Approach to the Construction of Microtonal Valved Brass Instruments - The French Horn

George Secor

Volume 5

 

Ascent of the Phoenix (score)

C. Forster

Volume 7+8

 

At the Tomb of Charles Ives (score)

Lou Harrison

Volume 2

 

Biases in Xenharmonic Scales

I. Darreg and B. McLaren

Volume 13, pp. 5-19

 

Binary Flute

Denny Genovese

Volume 7+8

 

Bosanquet - A Bridge - A Doorway to Dialog

Erv Wilson

Volume 2

 

The Bosanquetian 7-Rank Keyboard After Poole and Brown

Erv Wilson

Volume 1

 

Braid Piece (score)

Barbara Benary

Volume 4

 

A Brief History of Microtonality in the Twentieth Century

B. McLaren

Volume 17, pp. 57-110

 

A Brief History of the Lambdoma and the Musical Properties of the Computer Program for the “Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard”™

Barbara Hero

Volume 16, pp. 104-113

 

Centaur - A 7-Limit 12 Tone Tuning (chart)

K. Grady

Volume 16, p. 93

 

Cents and Non-Cents: Logarithmic Measures of Musical Interval Magnitude

John H. Chalmers

Volume 15, pp. 81-95

 

A Chart of All Superparticular Ratios from 2/1 through 81/80 with Value (or Size) in Cents (chart)

William Colvig

Volume 7+8

 

Chrysalis

Cris Forster

Volume 7+8

 

Circles of Fifths

B. McLaren

Volume 15, pp. 42-51

 

A Classification of Tonal Systems, and a Proposed Standardization of Signatures

Erv Wilson

Volume 2

 

A Collection of Scales With Nineteen Tones

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 7+8

 

Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously (score)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 5

 

Combination-Product Set Patterns

Kraig Grady

Volume 9

 

“COMMAS” Dec. 92-Jan. 93 for Electronic Keyboard (score)

Warren Burt

Volume 16, p. 103

 

Composing in Seven Equal

Clem Fortuna

Volume 13, pp. 77-79

 

Computer Generated Tuning Tables (chart)

John Chalmers

Volume 1

 

Cyclic Scales

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 4

 

D’alessandro, Like a Hurricane

Erv Wilson

Volume 12, pp. 1-39

 

“The Dayspring,” music for 19-tone clavichord (score)

Douglas Walker

Volume 6

 

Decadence (score)

Gary Morrison

Volume 7+8

 

Decimal Music

Gary Morrison

Volume 7+8

 

Development of a 53-tone Keyboard Layout

Larry A. Hanson

Volume 12, pp. 69-87

 

Diamond Marimba II

Cris Forster

Volume 7+8

 

The Discovery of a 14-tone Scale

Kraig Grady

Volume 13, pp. 86-89

 

Drones 1994 #2: Old Commas Inverted and Revisited (score)

Warren Burt

Volume 16, pp. 99-102

 

Editorial and Prospectus

John Chalmers

Volume 1

 

Eight Pieces for Harp in Ditone Diatonic (score)

Larry London

Volume 6

 

Epimores (score)

Carter Scholz

Volume 14, pp. 91-92

 

Episodes in the 17-Tone System (score)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 4

 

The Evolutionary Music System

Thomas Stone

Volume 2

 

Fabio Colonna’s Sambuca

Lynn Wood Martin

Volume 7+8

 

Fantasia in 19-Tone Equal Temperament (score)

Martin Sweidel

Volume 7+8

 

Four Bass Studies (what to do when the night comes…) (score)

Larry Polansky

Volume 10

 

Four Duets for Psaltery and Harp (score)

David Rosenthal

Volume 7+8

 

Four Items

Lou Harrison

Volume 1

 

Four Pieces in Didymus’s Chromatic (score)

Larry London

Volume 7+8

 

The Generalized Keyboard Scalatron

George Secor

Volume 3

 

General Methods for Generating Musical Scales

B. McLaren

Volume 13, pp. 20-44

 

Giving Number a Voice

Douglas Leedy

Volume 15, pp. 56-59

 

Going Places (score)

David Feldman

Volume 9

 

The Golden Net (score)

Douglas Walker

Volume 5

 

A Graphical Technique for Finding Equally-Tempered Scales by Their Harmonic Resources

Gary Morrison

Volume 13, pp. 90-94

 

Guitar Fretting Table 19-tone (chart)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 2

 

Guitar with Interchangeable Fingerboards

A. Peter Westbrook

Volume 6

 

Harmonic/Melodic Canon IV

Cris Forster

Volume 7+8

 

Harmonic Series Compared with Quartertone and 12-tone Tempered Scales (chart)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 1

 

Harmonic Series - Normal Overtones (chart)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 1

 

Helix Song (score)

David Rosenthal

Volume 7+8

 

Horn (score)

Larry Polansky

Volume 14, pp. 80-90

 

An Imaginary Nocturne (score)

Douglas Walker

Volume 14, pp. 93-108

 

Incidental Music for Corneille’s “Cinna” (score)

Lou Harrison

Volume 5

 

Information and Guidelines for Subscribers and Contributors to Xenharmonikôn

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 13, pp. 3-4

 

In Memoriam Ivor Darreg

John H. Chalmers

Volume 16, pp. 4-18

 

Interactive Program - Just Modulations (computer program)

Buzz Kimball

Volume 13, pp. 65-66

 

An Interview With Ivor Darreg About “The Xenharmonic Frontier”

B. McLaren

Volume 14, pp. 23-39

 

An Interview with Ralph David Hill

B. McLaren

Volume 16, pp. 54-60

 

Introduction to Everything

Cris Forster

Volume 7+8

 

Item: Five-tone, Six-tone, & Seven-tone Modal Forms within the Traditional Matrix of Two Tetrachords Separated by a Nine to Eight

Lou Harrison

Volume 4

 

Item: Thoughts while Designing a Gamelan

Lou Harrison

Volume 7+8

 

Ivor Darreg: An Interview About His Life and Work

B. McLaren

Volume 16, pp. 19-35

 

Ivor Darreg’s Musical Compositions Conceived for the Medium of Tape Recording (chart)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 4

 

A Kind Word or Two About Alexander John Ellis on the Occasion of the Centennial 1885-1985 of the Second English Edition of His Translation of and Appendix to Helmholtz’s Sensations of Tone

Ivor Darreg

Volume 9

 

Letter to the Editor

Heinz Bohlen

Volume 17, p. 124

 

limit19.c, a limit 19 calculator for just intonation music composition (computer program)

Matthew Walker

Volume 14, pp. 109-113

 

A Linear Twenty-Nine Tone Scale

Jose L. Garcia

Volume 11, pp. 43-45

 

List of Intervals Relevant to the Theory of Tuning (chart)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 1

 

The Low Profile of Those Higher Divisions of the Octave

B. McLaren

Volume 14, pp. 8-11

 

Macrotonal Scales

B. McLaren

Volume 16, pp. 36-44

 

Manual of Quartertone Harmony (Translated from the French by Ivor Darreg)

Ivan Vyshnegradski

Volume 6

 

The Marwa Permutations

Ervin M. Wilson

Volume 9

 

The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962): Notes by the Composer

La Monte Young

Volume 9

 

Monochordal Interpretations of Propositions in Euclid’s Elements

Jon Barlow

Volume 10

 

More About Non-Octave Scales

B. McLaren

Volume 16, pp. 45-53

 

Movement for Andréa Smith (My Funny Valentine for Just String Quartet) (score)

Larry Polansky

Volume 7+8

 

Movement for Lou Harrison, for just bass quartet (score)

Larry Polansky

Volume 11, pp. 68-89

 

Movement for Lou Harrison, for Two Violins (score)

Larry Polansky

Volume 6

 

Mr. Cage, His Ghosts, and Cheap Imitation(s)

Daniel J. Wolf

Volume 11, pp. 34-42

 

Multiple Division of the Octave and the Tonal Resources of 19-tone Temperament: Chapter 11 - Joseph Yasser

M. Joel Mandelbaum

Volume 4

 

The Musical Animal’s Musical Adventures

Heinz Bohlen

Volume 17, pp. 41-56

 

Mysteries (score)

Neil Haverstick

Volume 16, pp. 116-117

A New Look at the Partch Monophonic Fabric

George Secor

Volume 3

 

9/Oct Piano Piece (score)

B. McLaren

Volume 15, pp. 52-55

 

19-tone Clavichord (advertisement)

Erv Wilson

Volume 4

 

19-Tone Scale for the Clavichord-19 (chart)

Erv Wilson

Volume 6

 

A Nostalgic Look at the 20s (& Other Microtonal Scales)

B. McLaren

Volume 14, pp. 6-8

 

The Notation of Equal Temperaments

Paul Rapoport

Volume 16, pp. 61-84

 

Notes & Comments

John Chalmers

Volume 2

 

Notes & Comments

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 3

 

Notes and Comments

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 4

 

Notes & Comments

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 5

 

Notes and Comments, Six

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 6

 

Notes and Comments: Seven and Eight

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 7+8

 

Notes and Comments

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 13, pp. 1-3

 

Notes & Comments

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 14, pp. 1-2

 

Notes & Comments 15

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 15, pp. 1-2

 

Notes & Comments 16

John H. Chalmers

Volume 16, pp. 1-3

 

Notes & Comments 17

John H. Chalmers

Volume 17, pp. 1-3

 

Notes and Comments

George Secor

Volume 5

 

Notes and Comments

Daniel J. Wolf

Volume 9

 

Notes and Comments

D. J. Wolf

Volume 10

 

Notes and Comments

Daniel J. Wolf

Volume 11, p. ii

 

Notes and Comments

Daniel J. Wolf

Volume 12, p. ii

 

Notes on a New Marimba, its Tuning, and its Music

Erv Wilson, Stephen Smith, and Kraig Grady

Volume 11, pp. 46-60

 

Notes on Lattice: one approach to dynamic tuning

Carter Scholz

Volume 17, pp. 4-8

 

Notes on Mysteries

Neil Haverstick

Volume 16, pp. 114-115

 

Notes Towards Quasi-Tonal Treiskaidekaphilia

Paul Rapoport

Volume 13, pp. 45-52

 

The Number of 23-Prime-Limit Superparticular Ratios Less than 10,000,000

John H. Chalmers

Volume 17, pp. 111-115

 

A Numerical Theory of Scale Invention

Bruce R. Gilson

Volume 15, pp. 98-134

 

On Linear Notations and the Bosanquet Keyboard

Erv Wilson

Volume 3

 

On the Development of Intonational Systems by Extended Linear Mapping

Erv Wilson

Volume 3

 

On the Enharmonic Tetrachord (score)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 3

 

On the Nature of Working with Performers

Kraig Grady

Volume 16, p. 92

 

On This Thing Called Scalatron

Richard J. Harasek

Volume 3

 

“… out of fathomless Dark/into limitless Light …” (score)

Douglas Walker

Volume 7+8

 

A Phrase for Arion’s Leap (score)

Lou Harrison

Volume 3

 

Phrase in Free Style #1 (score)

Kerry G. Lewis

Volume 3

 

Phrase in Free Style #2 (score)

Kerry G. Lewis

Volume 3

 

Piano Study #5 (for JPR) (score)

Larry Polansky

Volume 6

 

The Pitches of Meantone Assigned to the 19-tone Generalized Keyboard (chart)

Erv Wilson

Volume 5

 

Pitch, Scale and Tuning in Rusty: A Fuzzy Logic Approach to the Tuning Problem

Michael Saunders and Michael Greenhough

Volume 17, pp. 116-119

 

Polychordal Arrays of MOS Scales

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 7+8

 

Preface to “Two Phrases in Free Style”

Kerry G. Lewis

Volume 3

 

Prelude for Guitar, in E Minor (score)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 3

 

The Purvi Modulations

Ervin M. Wilson

Volume 10

 

A Question of Microtonal Notation

Ezra Sims

Volume 11, pp. 21-24

 

Resources

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 13, pp. 104-105

 

Review of On the Relations of Tone, by Martin Vogel

Douglas Leedy

Volume 17, pp. 120-123

 

Review of Pitch for the International Microtonalist, Vol. 1, No. 4, edited by Johnny Reinhard

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 13, pp. 100-101

 

Review of Pitch, Pi, and Other Musical Paradoxes, by Charles E. H. Lucy

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 13, pp. 102-103

 

Review of Principios de la Gama Dinámica, by Eduardo Sábat Garibaldi

John Chalmers

Volume 16, pp. 126-127

 

Review of Selected Musical Compositions (1948-1972), by Adriaan Daniël Fokker, edited by Rudolf Rasch

Douglas Leedy

Volume 13, pp. 95-99

 

Review of The Just Intonation Primer, by David B. Doty

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 15, pp. 96-97

 

Review of The Science of Musical Sound, by John R. Pierce; and Lutes, Viols and Temperaments, by Mark Lindley

Douglas Leedy

Volume 11, pp. 61-67

 

A Rhythmic Application of the Horagrams

Kraig Grady

Volume 16, pp. 94-98

 

Scalatron Brochure (advertisement)

Richard J. Harasek

Volume 3

 

Season of Dust (score)

Buzz Kimball

Volume 13, pp. 67-69

 

Selections from Compositions by Ivor Darreg (score)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 1

 

A Short History of Thirty-One Tones to the Octave

Martin Sweidel

Volume 7+8

 

Some Additional Nineteen-tone Scales

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 7+8

 

Some Details Concerning The 19-Tone Clavichord

Jay Scott Hackleman

Volume 5

 

Some New Linear Temperaments

John Chalmers

Volume 2

 

Specifications of the Secor Generalized Keyboard Scalatron

George Secor

Volume 4

 

Speculum Pélogi

D. J. Wolf

Volume 11, pp. 25-33

 

String Quartet (1965-1975), I.S.I.M (score)

Douglas Leedy

Volume 9

 

String Quartet in Seven-Equal (score)

C. Fortuna

Volume 13, pp. 80-85

 

Studien im Gebiet der reinen Stimmung (A Translation of Pages 8 to 18 by Daniel J. Wolf)

Shohé Tanaka

Volume 16, pp. 118-125

 

Supplement: Makers of Instruments, et cetera, Part 1 (advertisement)

Daniel J. Wolf

Volume 12, pp. 88-89

 

A Symposium in the Study of Tricesimoprimal Music (advertisement)

Robert Chamberlin

Volume 5

 

T1: california duet for trombone and trombonist (score)

R. Marsanyi

Volume 13, pp. 70-76

 

Table of Errors in Equally-Tempered Intervals (chart)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 10

 

Tetrachordal Scales and Complexes

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 11, pp. 1-20

 

34-ET Notation System Based on Major and Minor Thirds

Larry A. Hanson

Volume 17, pp. 9-11

 

34-Tone Notation System Based on Adjusted 17-Tone

Gary Morrison

Volume 16, pp. 86-91

 

31 Tone Meantone Tuning - Link Between Past and Future

Herman Pedtke

Volume 6

 

Those Difficult Teens (and Other Microtonal Scales)

B. McLaren

Volume 14, pp. 3-6

 

Three Approaches to Harmony in 13-TET

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 13, pp. 53-64

 

Three Short Preludes (score)

Douglas Walker

Volume 6

 

Tonal Incarnations

Barbara Benary

Volume 4

 

The Tonality of the Golden Section

Walter O’Connell

Volume 15, pp. 3-18

 

The Touch-Tone® Signal Pitches as Subsets of Stretched 14-Tone ET’s

John H. Chalmers

Volume 15, pp. 74-80

 

The Triadic Diamond, the Triadic Reversed Diamond and Their Constituent Tetrachords when D = 3/2

John H. Chalmers

Volume 15, pp. 60-73

 

Trio: The Sands (music that doesn’t bother) (score)

Daniel Wolf

Volume 10

 

Tritriadic Scales with Seven Tones

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 9

 

Tritriadic Scales with Seven Tones, Part Two: Derived Forms and Structural Properties

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 10

 

Tritriadic Scales with Seven Tones. Part Three: The M->T and D->M Matrices

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 12, pp. 40-68

 

The Trouble with Equal Temperaments

George Secor

Volume 5

 

Tuning, Tonality and Twenty-Two-Tone Temperament

Paul Erlich

Volume 17, pp. 12-40

 

The 12+7+12=31 Geometry Applied to 3 Percussion Keyboards

Erv Wilson

Volume 4

 

Unified Visualization and Notation of Xenharmonic Systems

George Secor

Volume 3

 

The Uses and Characteristics of Non-just Non-equal-tempered Scales

B. McLaren

Volume 15, pp. 27-41

 

The Uses and Characteristics of Non-octave Scales

B. McLaren

Volume 14, pp. 12-22

 

Web of Fifths and Thirds (chart)

Scott Makeig

Volume 7+8

 

Well Tempered Notes

Richard J. Harasek

Volume 3

 

Well Tempered Notes

Richard Harasek

Volume 4

 

Will You Miss Me (score)

Larry Polansky

Volume 9

 

Without Frets (I): General Considerations

David Feldman

Volume 9

 

Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 1

Ivor Darreg

Volume 1

 

Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 2

Ivor Darreg

Volume 1

 

Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 3

Ivor Darreg

Volume 2

 

Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 4

Ivor Darreg

Volume 3

 

Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 5

Ivor Darreg

Volume 4

 

Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 6

Ivor Darreg

Volume 4

 

Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 7

Ivor Darreg

Volume 5

 

Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 8

Ivor Darreg

Volume 6

 

Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 9

Ivor Darreg

Volume 7+8

 

Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 12

Ivor Darreg

Volume 14, pp. 53-79

 

Xenharmonic Frontier Vol. 1, No. 9: 21/oct (score)

Ivor Darreg

Volume 14, pp. 50-52

 

Xenharmonikon I through Xenharmonikon X, an Index (chart)

Daniel J. Wolf

Volume 11, pp. 90-93

 

The Year of the Monkey

Brink McGoogy

Volume 15, pp. 19-26