Harry Partch and A Genesis of a Music

My music is based on a set of hexad's derived from A Genesis of a Music, Harry Partch's well written and influential book on his musical philosophy. Go to a library, check it out, and read it.

The scales I use are derived from Harry's Diamond Marimba. I take scales up and to the right, as in 1:1, 5:4, 3:2, 7:4, 9:8, 11:8 or down and to the right, as in 1:1, 8:5, 4:3, 8:7, 16:9, 16:11. For convenience, I have renamed the ratios as note names and accidentals. C is 1:1, E is 5:4, G is 3:2, D is 9:8, A++ is 7:4, and F++ is 11:8. Each note in the diamond has a note name, which is used in the macro source code. Harry didn't use consisten note names or accidentals for all his compositions; he made notation for each instrument to make it easier for musicians to play it. I don't have any musicians playing my music, so I chose a notation system based on Erv Wilson's note names and accidentals.

The Note names I use are these:

                           F++
                     D+      D-
                 A++     Bb      B-
             G       F#      G       G#
         E       E--     D#      E++     E-
     C       C       C       C       C       C
         Ab      A-      A+      G++     A--
             F       Gb      F       E+
                 D++     D       D--
                     A#      B--
                         G--

In ratios, it looks like this: