A presentation of documents of Erv Wilson that don't lend themselves to a separate section in the archives yet are illuminating in their thought or implications. Often comprised of sketches or notes found among his papers
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
SOME 5 LIMIT PENTATONICS (1982)
This is an unlabelled set of pentatonic scales in rotation in what first appeared to be a process similar to that used in his Purvi papers but was not in the end. Adjacent pages carry the year 1982. This set of 5 limit scales he has mapped over 53 squares with the whole set comprising 17 different pitches. In 53 unit sizes would be 53232323-53232323-9 implying two tetrachordal like blocks of 4/3 repeated with a 9/8 disjunction. Each interval shift involve the difference of a 25/24. The paper deserves more more attention. Comments and observations are welcome on this one.
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