James Tauber

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Entrepreneur and Pinax Lead Developer; Web Standards and Open Source Guy; Movie Producer and Digital Cinematographer; Composer and Music Theorist; Greek Scholar and Doctoral Student in Linguistics

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Jun 4	comment	Examples of songs or phrases played in different temperaments @rshallit I'll ask it now
Jun 4	comment	Examples of songs or phrases played in different temperaments I wonder the extent to which string quartets or a cappella choirs are non-ET. They are often cited as examples of the tendency towards just intonation when not using fixed-frequency instruments but I'd be interested to know if that's demonstrably true in certain recordings, etc.
Jun 3	revised	Equivalent Key Signatures added 2 characters in body; added 89 characters in body
Jun 3	revised	Equivalent Key Signatures added 195 characters in body
Jun 3	comment	Equivalent Key Signatures @ogerard thanks! that's a great example
Jun 3	comment	Equivalent Key Signatures Regarding "He used one for the prelude and the other for the fugue"... which BWV?
Jun 3	answered	Equivalent Key Signatures
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Jun 1	comment	Sharp / Flat: Collectively known as property by what name? I should add that in my computer music work, I use the term "letter" and "modifier" for the two parts of F♯
Jun 1	answered	Sharp / Flat: Collectively known as property by what name?
May 31	answered	How many voices do violins usually play in modern orchestral music
May 30	comment	What's the difference between a G♭ and an F#? @Gauthier definitely; they are different notes
May 30	comment	What's the difference between a G♭ and an F#? Gauthier, if the voice singing the third of an F♯ major chord has a B♭, that's an error. "Horizontal Readability" has nothing to do with it, it's just wrong.
May 30	answered	Tool to help “read” sheet music
May 26	comment	Are there any machine-readable databases of chord progressions available? Probabilistic phrase structure grammars will give more large-scale structure, I think, but Markov chains are an obvious low-level tool and exactly the sort of thing I'd like the data for
May 22	comment	Alternative Numerical Representation of Pitch These systems are all either non-numerical or fail to maintain enharmonic spelling differentiation. I'm interested in whether Base-40 is still state-of-the-art or whether other systems have been developed in the last 25 years.
May 21	revised	Alternative Numerical Representation of Pitch added 2 characters in body
May 21	answered	Capitalization of key names (C Minor vs. c minor)
May 21	comment	Alternative Numerical Representation of Pitch @cotroxell while not directly answering this question, your link is highly relevant to the broader questions I have; thanks!
May 21	comment	Capitalization of key names (C Minor vs. c minor) well, just because there's no need to further distinguish, doesn't mean there isn't a house style particular music publishers use (or once used) that required it. I assumed the question was about when and why the "convention" changed.