Abstract Modes And Scales

Spc1st, I tried to download Scala for Apple, but when I click on it it pretends to try to start it, but then shuts back down. i can see it loading at the bottom, but a window never pops up. Any thoughts? Thanks.

1. Johnhenry... I can effectively teach that at university ! :cool: It's just harder to explain here for I cannot show you charts and all.

2. Spc1st : for my uses all the scripts included in Kontak work very fine. I only use either fine tuning for all the 12 tones or egal division of the octave (to simulate the 96 egal division per octave piano - refer to Lithographies in 'musique' on my website http://www.vogagnon.com). So these two scripts (and more) are already there... altough I'll need to program one soon for I'll have to do a special 'weaving' or ondulating harpsichord for my opera (but not like vibrato or such). AND no I never tried to use scala stuff with Kontak... I just never saw a use to search since I modestily know almost all by heart what I need to use together with Kontak... I actually don't really use scala anymore... but it was very good for exploring at first. Now I got a library at home for references ! eheh But then... I know it's there if I need it later. I'm more a freak about the 'understandability' of the microtones for the musicians... so exploring too great dissonances is fine in theory but of no real use except with computer music... I'll try to start a thread someday about all my researches, but I need to write them down in english first (since my mother tongue is french)... someday...

3. Colin : Scala doesn't work with Intel processors yet but if you have anything else, it should be working. So that's what happen... if you got a PC or an older Mac at home... try installing it there.

I started a new thread in 'Advices' about music theory... be sure to read it and do all the exercices if you wanna be microtonaly 'enlightened' ehehe :P

Will do.

Colin Thomson

2. Spc1st : for my uses all the scripts included in Kontak work very fine. I only use either fine tuning for all the 12 tones or egal division of the octave (to simulate the 96 egal division per octave piano - refer to Lithographies in 'musique' on my website http://www.vogagnon.com).

Haha, thanks, but unfortunately I never really picked up French (I kinda cheated my way through when I took it in middle school :blush:).

Spc1st... you see... you're getting punish for being lazy today :blush:

I heard that the Darth Vader theme is actually based off of a very uncommon mode and chord pattern.

What the Darth Vader theme does, is something known as (or at least this is the name I learnt in Chile) "modal exchange", or so...

It sounds a minor tonic (I), let's say F#m. The accidentals for this tonality are F#, C# and G#. Then it sounds the VI, modified though. I mean, into this tonality the VI chord should be D (D, F#, A), but it goes Dm, keeping the relation more like a modal treatment than tonal one.

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