Topic: Al-Farabi (?) chromatic scale

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From: genewardsmith (2012-12-25)
Subject: Al-Farabi (?) chromatic scale

In the Scala directory are two scales attributed to Al-Farabi (aka Alpharabius), one is al-farabi_chrom.scl, "Al Farabi's Chromatic c700 AD" and the second is al-farabi_chrom2.scl, "Al-Farabi's Chromatic permuted". There are a couple of things wrong with this--the first is that the second scale is not a permutation of the first scale. The second is that 700 AD dates the scale to well before Al Farabi was born. Does anyone have a clue to offer about this?

From: genewardsmith (2012-12-25)
Subject: Re: Al-Farabi (?) chromatic scale

--- In [email protected], "genewardsmith" <genewardsmith@...> wrote:

I forgot to add this:

! al-farabi_chrom.scl
!
Al Farabi's Chromatic c700 AD                                                   
 7
!
 9/8
 27/20
 729/512
 3/2
 9/5
 19/10
 2/1

! al-farabi_chrom2.scl
!
Al-Farabi's Chromatic permuted                                                  
 7
!
 16/15
 56/45
 4/3
 3/2
 8/5
 28/15
 2/1