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Very interesting notion (that you'd like to recognize the individual color contribution of notes that others negate by considering them "passing"/"chromatic" notes)! Calling one note a "Scale note" and it's neighbour a mere "passing note" implies that we consi...

I must say it's awesome that you have joined the forum, Mr. Gratz! Hopefully your presence will serve to fill in some gaps that some of us have in our understanding of LCC's underlying concepts. Not sure if you've read any of my contributions to the forum, but if you have, you'll know that while I a...

motherlode: I read the linked articles, and get your point. I'm also encouraged that you would "beg" me to read them. You obviously see something valuable in what I've been developing and posting. quote from Einstein in your linked article: "None of these three points can rank as a lo...

Joegold: I thought for a long time about the chord-scale options you proposed above, and, you're right: LCC is the only chord-scale system that would provide these choices. I'ts probably the only means, period, by which most musicians would arrive at these combinations. I've been thinking a lot abou...

I think he's just trying to prove that the tritone is special somehow by virtue of being 'the exact centre' of the octave, and therefore the lydian scale is better than the major scale. In my view, all he does is prove that 6 time an operation is half of 12 times an operation. No tritone produced by...

joegold wrote: "Yet later on in your post you seem to be reject that nomenclature. Hmm. " It's not so much a REJECTION of the nomenclature, as an allowance that all the structures that can be described with LCC nomenclature can be described otherwise. So if someone thought that LCC puts ch...

If that page you linked debunked something, I guess I missed it. I'm not sure I found any reasoned conclusions on the entire page. I'd be more than happy to consider a re-worded second attempt or something, but if this page is the most convincing you've managed, I'm not sure you have something to pr...

I think there is a kind of "for" or "against" mentality when it comes to the LCC, as if one must accept all aspects of what is presented in the book(s) or else reject all of it. I think this has the effect that people who don't necessarily agree with or even understand the 'theor...

Thank you for having so much confidence in me despite having differing views in some areas. I remember you suggesting one time that I should be a writer. Interestingly, I had set out to write a book about all that I was discovering with this theory stuff. I keep journals that I write all my little t...

It's good to talk with someone who is familiar with the same material I have studied, and even much more. I thank you for you frank honesty. I don't expect everyone, or even anyone, to agree with me, but at least when people don't it's good to know they have thoroughly considered what I have propose...

I would agree that GR's music has a lot more to offer (and of course, that's totally subjective) than most other composers who, on the side, offer theories and methods for others to use. At the end of the day, your music must ultimately stem from within you, and move you, if it's going to move other...

I'm saying that over a C bass note, several intervals have an overtonal relationship with the C, as a result of being more or less "in tune" with partials of C's overtone series, thereby being a "unity" with the C, to use some Russell terminology. This is one "class" of...

All of the intervals in the preceeding discussion had a particular property or quality: they were all OVERTONAL, meaning they are all ratios that are present and prominent in the OS of the tonic. There is another way that two tones can relate to one another, and a sort of prototype for all of this i...

dogbite wrote: "the term "absurd" comes to mind" I'm told dogs only bite if they feel threatened or sense fear. What's so threatening about what I'm writing? If it's all wrong, it'll all evaporate like a puddle of dog pee. If it's not, something good can only come out of it. Let'...

joegold wrote: "I'm guessing that you already realize this, but it's not evident from your post that you're aware that the 81st partial of your fundamental (marked as an octave double of the M3 interval above the fundamental) is not an exact octave double of the fundamental's 5th partial (which...