musicMCT (version 0.1.2)

intervalspectrum: Specific sizes corresponding to each generic interval

Description

As defined by Clough and Myerson 1986 (doi:10.1080/00029890.1986.11971924), an "interval spectrum" is a list of all the specific (or "chromatic") intervals that occur as instances of a single generic (or "diatonic") interval within some reference scale. For instance, in the usual diatonic scale, the generic interval 1 (a "step" in the scale) comes in two specific sizes: 1 semitone and 2 semitones. Therefore its interval spectrum \(\langle 1 \rangle = \{ 1, 2 \}\). These functions calculates the spectrum for every generic interval within a set and return either a list of specific values in each spectrum or a summary of how many distinct values there are.

Usage

intervalspectrum(set, edo = 12, rounder = 10)
spectrumcount(set, edo = 12, rounder = 10)

Value

intervalspectrum returns a list of length one less than length(set). The nth entry of the list represents the specific sizes of generic interval n. spectrumcount returns a vector that reports the length of each entry in that list (i.e. the number of distinct specific intervals for each generic interval).

Arguments

set

Numeric vector of pitch-classes in the set

edo

Number of unit steps in an octave. Defaults to 12.

rounder

Numeric (expected integer), defaults to 10: number of decimal places to round to when testing for equality.

Examples

intervalspectrum(sc(7,35))
qcm_fifth <- meantone_fifth()
qcm_dia <- sort(((0:6)*qcm_fifth)%%12)
intervalspectrum(qcm_dia)
just_dia <- 12 * log2(c(1, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, 5/3, 15/8))
intervalspectrum(just_dia)

spectrumcount(just_dia) # The just diatonic scale is trivalent.

# Melodic minor nearly has "Myhill's Property" except for its 3 sizes of fourth and fifth
spectrumcount(sc(7,34))