Genesis of a Music

Partch, H. (1974). Genesis of a Music: an account of a creative work, its roots and its fulfillments. Da Capo Press.

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Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1974

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Domain-specific

• Otonality and utonality
  • Otonality and utonality classify rational pitch collections by shared denominator or numerator relative to a fixed identity.
  • The entry records a descriptive analytical identity; practical use requires the governing domain's evidence, standards, and safety obligations.
• Superpartient Ratio
  • In modern tuning practice, especially just-intonation traditions, 5/3, 7/4, 8/5, 9/5, and related ratios may be described with historical superpartient terminology

    This sourcePartch's Genesis of a Music carries the older ratio vocabulary - superparticular and superpartient both occur in it - and its 43-tone scale contains 5/3, 7/4, 8/5 and 9/5. Partch's Genesis of a Music treats 7/4 as a scale degree in septimal terms; the name 'harmonic seventh' is not the book's own word for it.

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