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13 Tonstufen in der Duodezime

H. Bohlen

 

This paper is reproduced here by courtesy of the publisher, S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart.
(Written permission of August 16, 2000.)

Abstract:
Based on a consonance criterion that is founded on combination tones, first the Western twelve-step scale is derived from the major triad. The same procedure, extended to consonant intervals not used in the Western scale, then leads to a thirteen-step scale filling the framework of the twelfth. This scale is presented in just and equal tempered tuning. Approaches are shown to a tonal system, based on this scale, and to the realization of 13-tone music.

 

The manuscript for this paper is from December 1975; its original is archived at Huygens-Fokker Foundation (Stichting Huygens-Fokker), Amsterdam.