Volume 4 (Fall 1975)

Cyclic Scales

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

 

• p. 7, table 2: under heading “G. n=9”, insert “(4) 3 1 3 1 1” after “(2) 2 2 2 2 1”.

 

Volume 7+8 (Spring 1979)

Polychordal Arrays of MOS Scales

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

 

• [pp. 5-6], table 1: under column heading “G”, entries should be listed in ascending order from top to bottom in each subtable.
• [p. 5], table 1: in subtable “N 13”, “546 - 600” should read “545 - 600”.
• [p. 6], table 1, in subtable “N 20”, “533 - 546” should read “533 - 545”.

 

A Collection of Scales With Nineteen Tones

John H. Chalmers, Jr.

 

• [p. 8], table 1: under column heading “19-31”, C# should be 25/24.
• [p. 9], table 2: under column heading “19 of 1/5 Comma”, F should be 502.3.
• [p. 10], table 2: under column heading “19 of 2/7 Comma”, B# should be 1149.7.
• [p. 10], table 2: under column heading “3.5.7 LST”, E# should be 465.7, F# should be 581.3, A should be 890.7.
• [p. 11], table 3: under column heading “RVF-2”, (Fb) should be (408.4).
• [p. 11], table 3: under column heading “RVF-3”, Db should be 106.3, Eb should be 306.2, (Fb) should be (400.4), F should be 502.9, Gb should be 605.1, Ab should be 806.6, Bb should be 1004.9, (Cb) should be (1103.2).
• [p. 11], n. 3: the intervals range from 31¢ to 90¢.
• [p. 11], n. 4: the intervals range from 25¢ to 97¢.
• [p. 12], table 4: under column heading “Generator”, all entries should be listed in descending order from top to bottom.
• [p. 12], table 4, entry 2: “436 + 450” should read “436 - 450”.
• [p. 12], table 4, entry 5: “204 - 257” should read “240 - 257”.

 

Volume 11 (1989)

Speculum Pélogi

D. J. Wolf

 

• p. 32, line 12: “41353607/10077696” should read “40353607/10077696”, which exceeds two octaves by 1.838 cents.

 

Volume 13 (Spring 1991)

General Methods for Generating Musical Scales

B. McLaren

 

• p. 41, top: the difference table should read as follows:

  324   216   108	   48	20
     108	 108	60    28
  	0    48	   32
  	 -48	16
  	    -64
  

• p. 41, upper half: in the successive ratio list, “108/46*2” should read “108/48*2”.
• p. 42, line 5: “1.63804” should read “1.61804”.

 

Volume 15 (Autumn 1993)

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

B. McLaren

 

• p. 29, E Scale: “8234.297 cents/e” should read “234.297 cents/e”.
• p. 32, top: “f2 = 2.7271” should read “f2 = 2.75715”.
• p. 35, Infinite Continued Fraction Scale #1: “35.23” should read “35.32”.

 

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

John H. Chalmers

 

• p. 64, table 1, entry 21: “99 + 96 + 399” should read “99 + 96 + 303”.
• p. 65, table 2, entry 13: “256/243 x 19688/16384 x 256/243” should read “256/243 x 19683/16384 x 256/243”.
• p. 66, table 2, entry 3: “112/99 x 3207/3136 x 112/99” should read “112/99 x 3267/3136 x 112/99”.
• p. 66, table 2, entry 7: “56/51 x 876/784 x 56/51” should read “56/51 x 867/784 x 56/51”.
• p. 66, table 2, entry 9: “200 + 97 + 200” should read “201 + 97 + 201”.
• p. 66, table 2, entry 10: “94 + 310 + 94” should read “94 + 311 + 94”.

 

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

John H. Chalmers

 

• p. 82, line 6: “3/2 perfect fifth of 701.9550009 cents” should read “12-tet perfect fifth of 700 cents”.

 

Volume 16 (Autumn 1995)

The Notation of Equal Temperaments

Paul Rapoport

 

• p. 66, lines 19-20: “just perfect fifth (701.955 cents)” should read “12-tET perfect fifth (700 cents)”.
• p. 69, chart 8: the Pythagorean diatonic semitone should be 2 units.

 

Volume 17 (Spring 1998)

Notes & Comments 17

John H. Chalmers

 

• p. 2, line 12: “http://www.tiac.net/users/xen/xh.html” should read “http://www.tiac.net/users/xen/xh/”.
• p. 2, line 14: “http://www.tiac.net/users/xen/jgp/” should read “http://www.tiac.net/users/xen/scala/”.

 

Tuning, Tonality and Twenty-Two-Tone Temperament

Paul Erlich

 

• p. 32, line 20, through p. 34, line 5: remove all text including table 4.
• p. 39, table 5: under column heading “just ratios and cents for sa-grama (3/2 - 705/75)”, remove “[33/32 - 57.1]”, “(12/11 - 154.4)”, “(11/8 - 555.1)”, “[16/11 - 652.5]”, “[14/9 - 768.7]”, “(5/3 - 888.2)”, “(7/4 - 972.6)”, “[27/14 - 1140.8]”.
• p. 39, table 5: under column heading “just ratios and cents for ma-grama (1/1 - 705.75)”, remove “(11/8 - 57.1)”, “[16/11 - 154.4]”, “[14/9 - 270.7]”, “(12/7 - 438.9)”, “(9/5 - 523.3)”, “[27/14 - 642.8]”, “[33/32 - 759]”, “(12/11 - 856.4)”, “(7/6 - 972.6)”, “(9/7 - 1140.8)”.