The Tuning of Lou Harrison's Music for Bill and Me
Music for Bill and Me
Music for Bill and Me is another work originally for harp, for which Harrison designed a hexatonic (six-tone) just intonation scale. (For the definition of cents and explanation of the following lattice diagram, see the note for the tuning of the Serenade and for more mathematical details, go here.).
| Pitch | C | |
D | |
E | |
G | |
A | |
B | |
C |
| Ratio from 1/1 | 1/1 | |
9/8 | |
5/4 | |
3/2 | |
27/16 | |
15/8 | |
2/1 |
| Cents from 1/1 | 0 | |
203.9 | |
386.3 | |
702 | |
905.9 | |
1088.3 | |
1200 |
| Frequency | 260.7 | |
293.3 | |
325.9 | |
391.1 | |
440 | |
488.9 | |
521.5 |
| Ratio between pitches | | 9/8 |
| 10/9 |
| 6/5 |
| 9/8 |
| 10/9 |
| 16/15 |
|
| Cents between pitches | | 203.9 |
| 182.4 |
| 315.6 |
| 203.9 |
| 182.4 |
| 111.7 |
|
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