Xenharmonikôn Tables of Contents

Volume 1 (Spring 1974)

Editorial and Prospectus: John Chalmers
Four Items: Lou Harrison
The Bosanquetian 7-Rank Keyboard After Poole and Brown: Erv Wilson
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 1: Ivor Darreg
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 2: Ivor Darreg
Harmonic Series - Normal Overtones (chart): Ivor Darreg
Harmonic Series Compared with Quartertone and 12-tone Tempered Scales (chart): Ivor Darreg
List of Intervals Relevant to the Theory of Tuning (chart): Ivor Darreg
Selections from Compositions by Ivor Darreg (score): Ivor Darreg
Computer Generated Tuning Tables (chart): John Chalmers

Volume 2 (Fall 1974)

Notes & Comments: John Chalmers
The Evolutionary Music System: Thomas Stone
Bosanquet - A Bridge - A Doorway to Dialog: Erv Wilson
A Classification of Tonal Systems, and a Proposed Standardization of Signatures: Erv Wilson
At the Tomb of Charles Ives (score): Lou Harrison
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 3: Ivor Darreg
Guitar Fretting Table 19-tone (chart): Ivor Darreg
Some New Linear Temperaments: John Chalmers

Volume 3 (Spring 1975)

Notes & Comments: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 4: Ivor Darreg
On the Enharmonic Tetrachord (score): Ivor Darreg
Prelude for Guitar, in E Minor (score): Ivor Darreg
An American Gamelan: William Colvig
On This Thing Called Scalatron: Richard J. Harasek
Scalatron Brochure (advertisement): Richard J. Harasek
Well Tempered Notes: Richard J. Harasek
The Generalized Keyboard Scalatron: George Secor
Unified Visualization and Notation of Xenharmonic Systems: George Secor
A New Look at the Partch Monophonic Fabric: George Secor
A Phrase for Arion’s Leap (score): Lou Harrison
Preface to “Two Phrases in Free Style”: Kerry G. Lewis
Phrase in Free Style #1 (score): Kerry G. Lewis
Phrase in Free Style #2 (score): Kerry G. Lewis
The Application of Rothenberg’s Pattern Recognition Model to the Structure of Tetrachords and Tetrachordal Scales: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
On Linear Notations and the Bosanquet Keyboard: Erv Wilson
On the Development of Intonational Systems by Extended Linear Mapping: Erv Wilson

Volume 4 (Fall 1975)

Notes and Comments: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Multiple Division of the Octave and the Tonal Resources of 19-tone Temperament: Chapter 11 - Joseph Yasser: M. Joel Mandelbaum
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 5: Ivor Darreg
Ivor Darreg’s Musical Compositions Conceived for the Medium of Tape Recording (chart): Ivor Darreg
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 6: Ivor Darreg
Episodes in the 17-Tone System (score): Ivor Darreg
Well Tempered Notes: Richard Harasek
Specifications of the Secor Generalized Keyboard Scalatron: George Secor
Braid Piece (score): Barbara Benary
Tonal Incarnations: Barbara Benary
Item: Five-tone, Six-tone, & Seven-tone Modal Forms within the Traditional Matrix of Two Tetrachords Separated by a Nine to Eight: Lou Harrison
Cyclic Scales: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
The 12+7+12=31 Geometry Applied to 3 Percussion Keyboards: Erv Wilson
19-tone Clavichord (advertisement): Erv Wilson

Volume 5 (Spring 1976)

Notes & Comments: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
The Golden Net (score): Douglas Walker
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 7: Ivor Darreg
Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously (score): Ivor Darreg
A Symposium in the Study of Tricesimoprimal Music (advertisement): Robert Chamberlin
The Pitches of Meantone Assigned to the 19-tone Generalized Keyboard (chart): Erv Wilson
Some Details Concerning The 19-Tone Clavichord: Jay Scott Hackleman
Notes and Comments: George Secor
The Trouble with Equal Temperaments: George Secor
An Approach to the Construction of Microtonal Valved Brass Instruments - The French Horn: George Secor
Incidental Music for Corneille’s “Cinna” (score): Lou Harrison

Volume 6 (Summer 1977)

Notes and Comments, Six: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Manual of Quartertone Harmony (Translated from the French by Ivor Darreg): Ivan Vyshnegradski
Piano Study #5 (for JPR) (score): Larry Polansky
Movement for Lou Harrison, for Two Violins (score): Larry Polansky
Eight Pieces for Harp in Ditone Diatonic (score): Larry London
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 8: Ivor Darreg
Three Short Preludes (score): Douglas Walker
“The Dayspring,” music for 19-tone clavichord (score): Douglas Walker
19-Tone Scale for the Clavichord-19 (chart): Erv Wilson
31 Tone Meantone Tuning - Link Between Past and Future: Herman Pedtke
Guitar with Interchangeable Fingerboards: A. Peter Westbrook

Volume 7+8 (Spring 1979)

Notes and Comments: Seven and Eight: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Introduction to Everything: Cris Forster
Chrysalis: Cris Forster
Harmonic/Melodic Canon IV: Cris Forster
Diamond Marimba II: Cris Forster
Ascent of the Phoenix (score): C. Forster
“… out of fathomless Dark/into limitless Light …” (score): Douglas Walker
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 9: Ivor Darreg
Anthracite Sweetheart (score): Brian Hartzler
A Short History of Thirty-One Tones to the Octave: Martin Sweidel
Fantasia in 19-Tone Equal Temperament (score): Martin Sweidel
Fabio Colonna’s Sambuca: Lynn Wood Martin
Decimal Music: Gary Morrison
Decadence (score): Gary Morrison
Item: Thoughts while Designing a Gamelan: Lou Harrison
A Chart of All Superparticular Ratios from 2/1 through 81/80 with Value (or Size) in Cents (chart): William Colvig
Four Duets for Psaltery and Harp (score): David Rosenthal
Helix Song (score): David Rosenthal
Four Pieces in Didymus’s Chromatic (score): Larry London
Movement for Andréa Smith (My Funny Valentine for Just String Quartet) (score): Larry Polansky
Binary Flute: Denny Genovese
Web of Fifths and Thirds (chart): Scott Makeig
Polychordal Arrays of MOS Scales: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
A Collection of Scales With Nineteen Tones: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Some Additional Nineteen-tone Scales: John H. Chalmers, Jr.

Volume 9 (1986)

Notes and Comments: Daniel J. Wolf
Tritriadic Scales with Seven Tones: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
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
Without Frets (I): General Considerations: David Feldman
Going Places (score): David Feldman
Combination-Product Set Patterns: Kraig Grady
String Quartet (1965-1975), I.S.I.M (score): Douglas Leedy
Will You Miss Me (score): Larry Polansky
The Marwa Permutations: Ervin M. Wilson
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 10 (1987)

Notes and Comments: D. J. Wolf
Monochordal Interpretations of Propositions in Euclid’s Elements: Jon Barlow
Tritriadic Scales with Seven Tones, Part Two: Derived Forms and Structural Properties: John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Table of Errors in Equally-Tempered Intervals (chart): Ivor Darreg
Four Bass Studies (what to do when the night comes…) (score): Larry Polansky
The Purvi Modulations: Ervin M. Wilson
Trio: The Sands (music that doesn’t bother) (score): Daniel Wolf

Volume 11 (1989)

Notes and Comments: Daniel J. Wolf; p. ii
Tetrachordal Scales and Complexes: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 1-20
A Question of Microtonal Notation: Ezra Sims; pp. 21-24
Speculum Pélogi: D. J. Wolf; pp. 25-33
Mr. Cage, His Ghosts, and Cheap Imitation(s): Daniel J. Wolf; pp. 34-42
A Linear Twenty-Nine Tone Scale: Jose L. Garcia; pp. 43-45
Notes on a New Marimba, its Tuning, and its Music: Erv Wilson, Stephen Smith, and Kraig Grady; pp. 46-60
Review of The Science of Musical Sound, by John R. Pierce; and Lutes, Viols and Temperaments, by Mark Lindley: Douglas Leedy; pp. 61-67
Movement for Lou Harrison, for just bass quartet (score): Larry Polansky; pp. 68-89
Xenharmonikon I through Xenharmonikon X, an Index (chart): Daniel J. Wolf; pp. 90-93

Volume 12 (Spring 1989)

Notes and Comments: Daniel J. Wolf; p. ii
D’alessandro, Like a Hurricane: Erv Wilson; pp. 1-39
Tritriadic Scales with Seven Tones. Part Three: The M->T and D->M Matrices: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 40-68
Development of a 53-tone Keyboard Layout: Larry A. Hanson; pp. 69-87
Supplement: Makers of Instruments, et cetera, Part 1 (advertisement): Daniel J. Wolf; pp. 88-89

Volume 13 (Spring 1991)

Notes and Comments: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 1-3
Information and Guidelines for Subscribers and Contributors to Xenharmonikôn: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 3-4
Biases in Xenharmonic Scales: I. Darreg and B. McLaren; pp. 5-19
General Methods for Generating Musical Scales: B. McLaren; pp. 20-44
Notes Towards Quasi-Tonal Treiskaidekaphilia: Paul Rapoport; pp. 45-52
Three Approaches to Harmony in 13-TET: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 53-64
Interactive Program - Just Modulations (computer program): Buzz Kimball; pp. 65-66
Season of Dust (score): Buzz Kimball; pp. 67-69
T1: california duet for trombone and trombonist (score): R. Marsanyi; pp. 70-76
Composing in Seven Equal: Clem Fortuna; pp. 77-79
String Quartet in Seven-Equal (score): C. Fortuna; pp. 80-85
The Discovery of a 14-tone Scale: Kraig Grady; pp. 86-89
A Graphical Technique for Finding Equally-Tempered Scales by Their Harmonic Resources: Gary Morrison; pp. 90-94
Review of Selected Musical Compositions (1948-1972), by Adriaan Daniël Fokker, edited by Rudolf Rasch: Douglas Leedy; pp. 95-99
Review of Pitch for the International Microtonalist, Vol. 1, No. 4, edited by Johnny Reinhard: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 100-101
Review of Pitch, Pi, and Other Musical Paradoxes, by Charles E. H. Lucy: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 102-103
Resources: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 104-105

Volume 14 (Spring 1993)

Notes & Comments: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 1-2
Those Difficult Teens (and Other Microtonal Scales): B. McLaren; pp. 3-6
A Nostalgic Look at the 20s (& Other Microtonal Scales): B. McLaren; pp. 6-8
The Low Profile of Those Higher Divisions of the Octave: B. McLaren; pp. 8-11
The Uses and Characteristics of Non-octave Scales: B. McLaren; pp. 12-22
An Interview With Ivor Darreg About “The Xenharmonic Frontier”: B. McLaren; pp. 23-39
An Analysis of Ivor Darreg’s XF1, Volume 1, Number 12: B. McLaren; pp. 40-49
Xenharmonic Frontier Vol. 1, No. 9: 21/oct (score): Ivor Darreg; pp. 50-52
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 12: Ivor Darreg; pp. 53-79
Horn (score): Larry Polansky; pp. 80-90
Epimores (score): Carter Scholz; pp. 91-92
An Imaginary Nocturne (score): Douglas Walker; pp. 93-108
limit19.c, a limit 19 calculator for just intonation music composition (computer program): Matthew Walker; pp. 109-113

Volume 15 (Autumn 1993)

Notes & Comments 15: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 1-2
The Tonality of the Golden Section: Walter O’Connell; pp. 3-18
The Year of the Monkey: Brink McGoogy; pp. 19-26
The Uses and Characteristics of Non-just Non-equal-tempered Scales: B. McLaren; pp. 27-41
Circles of Fifths: B. McLaren; pp. 42-51
9/Oct Piano Piece (score): B. McLaren; pp. 52-55
Giving Number a Voice: Douglas Leedy; pp. 56-59
The Triadic Diamond, the Triadic Reversed Diamond and Their Constituent Tetrachords when D = 3/2: John H. Chalmers; pp. 60-73
The Touch-Tone® Signal Pitches as Subsets of Stretched 14-Tone ET’s: John H. Chalmers; pp. 74-80
Cents and Non-Cents: Logarithmic Measures of Musical Interval Magnitude: John H. Chalmers; pp. 81-95
Review of The Just Intonation Primer, by David B. Doty: John H. Chalmers, Jr.; pp. 96-97
A Numerical Theory of Scale Invention: Bruce R. Gilson; pp. 98-134

Volume 16 (Autumn 1995)

Notes & Comments 16: John H. Chalmers; pp. 1-3
In Memoriam Ivor Darreg: John H. Chalmers; pp. 4-18
Ivor Darreg: An Interview About His Life and Work: B. McLaren; pp. 19-35
Macrotonal Scales: B. McLaren; pp. 36-44
More About Non-Octave Scales: B. McLaren; pp. 45-53
An Interview with Ralph David Hill: B. McLaren; pp. 54-60
The Notation of Equal Temperaments: Paul Rapoport; pp. 61-84
34-Tone Notation System Based on Adjusted 17-Tone: Gary Morrison; pp. 86-91
On the Nature of Working with Performers: Kraig Grady; p. 92
Centaur - A 7-Limit 12 Tone Tuning (chart): K. Grady; p. 93
A Rhythmic Application of the Horagrams: Kraig Grady; pp. 94-98
Drones 1994 #2: Old Commas Inverted and Revisited (score): Warren Burt; pp. 99-102
“COMMAS” Dec. 92-Jan. 93 for Electronic Keyboard (score): Warren Burt; p. 103
A Brief History of the Lambdoma and the Musical Properties of the Computer Program for the “Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard”™: Barbara Hero; pp. 104-113
Notes on Mysteries: Neil Haverstick; pp. 114-115
Mysteries (score): Neil Haverstick; pp. 116-117
Studien im Gebiet der reinen Stimmung (A Translation of Pages 8 to 18 by Daniel J. Wolf): Shohé Tanaka; pp. 118-125
Review of Principios de la Gama Dinámica, by Eduardo Sábat Garibaldi: John Chalmers; pp. 126-127

Volume 17 (Spring 1998)

Notes & Comments 17: John H. Chalmers; pp. 1-3
Notes on Lattice: one approach to dynamic tuning: Carter Scholz; pp. 4-8
34-ET Notation System Based on Major and Minor Thirds: Larry A. Hanson; pp. 9-11
Tuning, Tonality and Twenty-Two-Tone Temperament: Paul Erlich; pp. 12-40
The Musical Animal’s Musical Adventures: Heinz Bohlen; pp. 41-56
A Brief History of Microtonality in the Twentieth Century: B. McLaren; pp. 57-110
The Number of 23-Prime-Limit Superparticular Ratios Less than 10,000,000: John H. Chalmers; pp. 111-115
Pitch, Scale and Tuning in Rusty: A Fuzzy Logic Approach to the Tuning Problem: Michael Saunders and Michael Greenhough; pp. 116-119
Review of On the Relations of Tone, by Martin Vogel: Douglas Leedy; pp. 120-123
Letter to the Editor: Heinz Bohlen; p. 124

Complete through Volume 17 (Spring 1998)

Volume 1 (Spring 1974)

Volume 2 (Fall 1974)

Volume 3 (Spring 1975)

Volume 4 (Fall 1975)

Volume 5 (Spring 1976)

Volume 6 (Summer 1977)

Volume 7+8 (Spring 1979)

Volume 9 (1986)

Volume 10 (1987)

Volume 11 (1989)

Volume 12 (Spring 1989)

Volume 13 (Spring 1991)

Volume 14 (Spring 1993)

Volume 15 (Autumn 1993)

Volume 16 (Autumn 1995)

Volume 17 (Spring 1998)