"What Should I Practice?" and The Musical Life
Kia ora koutou katoa, I hope you're all doing well physically, socially and emotionally. I know this period of online learning is going...
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Cam Taylor
Dec 10, 20205 min read
Microtonality in 55 Keys - the first book
I am very proud to finally release my first book! It has been over four years in the making, and a bit of a wild ride, but it is finally...
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Cam Taylor
Oct 1, 201817 min read
94edo, how to deal with a big schismatic chain of fifths
I spent the better part of Saturday trying to create a xenharmonic wiki page for 94edo that I thought would pedagogically helpful, but I...
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Cam Taylor
Sep 22, 201812 min read
what music theory do i need to start tuning?
First posted 22/09/2018, edited 7/11/2018 You don’t really need to know anything to start, many have gone into the field with only their...
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Cam Taylor
Sep 19, 20185 min read
Getting back on the band wagon. Starting a new blog.
Wow, it’s been a long time since I wrote a post on here. Over the intervening months and years I have thought several times about writing...
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Cam Taylor
Aug 4, 20144 min read
non mean tones
This is my first post in a rather long time. But since that last post I’ve been spending most of my time dealing with tuning systems that...
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Cam Taylor
Jun 13, 20145 min read
100edo, a modern “well-temperament” or two
Sorry for the massive break. Not really sure why I didn’t write anything earlier. Having become really familiar with 50edo, I looked into...
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Cam Taylor
Mar 19, 20146 min read
Application
50EDO might seem like an impossibility, another musical universe with nothing tying it to the system most people claim to think in. It...
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Cam Taylor
Mar 14, 20146 min read
The third(s). Vertical harmony
We hear major and minor thirds every day. Almost any harmonised melody in existence is bound to contain a bunch of thirds or sixths...
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Cam Taylor
Mar 12, 20147 min read
leading tones. semitones and other divisions.
all regular meantones have rather low major sevenths, in comparison to our modern 12EDO or Pythagorean tuning, as a result of flattened...
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Cam Taylor
Mar 10, 20145 min read
50EDO and why it kicks ass, types of thirds, a meantone series
For a year or so, I got heavily into meantone tunings, tuning my piano in a twelve note subset Eb to G#, realising with a set like that...
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Cam Taylor
Mar 9, 20146 min read
fifths. the spiral. circles. temperament.
just for anyone skeptical that a system of thirty one tones to the octave is ridiculous or impractical, keyboard (and other) instruments...
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Cam Taylor
Mar 8, 20147 min read
meantones. thirty one. primes.
ok so the first post i was thinking about introducing a bunch of theory from scratch but now i’m thinking, that’ll take way too long, and...
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Cam Taylor
Mar 8, 20145 min read
a brief introduction to tuning, numbers, history
so i’ve decided to write a blog about something i’m passionate about. it’s not so obvious what i should post here, who my intended...
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