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The Xenharmonicon was a magazine that ran from 1974 to 1998 that had a focus on experimental and microtonal music. There is no known digital copies of the magazine but there is a archive of the articles that were originally published in it.
Volume 1 (Spring 1974)
Editorial and Prospectus
John Chalmers
Four Items
Lou Harrison
The Bosanquetian 7-Rank Keyboard After Poole and Brown
Erv Wilson
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 1
Ivor Darreg
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 2
Ivor Darreg
Harmonic Series - Normal Overtones (chart)
Ivor Darreg
Harmonic Series Compared with Quartertone and 12-tone Tempered Scales (chart)
Ivor Darreg
List of Intervals Relevant to the Theory of Tuning (chart)
Ivor Darreg
Selections from Compositions by Ivor Darreg (score)
Ivor Darreg
Computer Generated Tuning Tables (chart)
John Chalmers
Volume 2 (Fall 1974)
Notes & Comments
John Chalmers
The Evolutionary Music System
Thomas Stone
Bosanquet - A Bridge - A Doorway to Dialog
Erv Wilson
A Classification of Tonal Systems, and a Proposed Standardization of Signatures
Erv Wilson
At the Tomb of Charles Ives (score)
Lou Harrison
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 3
Ivor Darreg
Guitar Fretting Table 19-tone (chart)
Ivor Darreg
Some New Linear Temperaments
John Chalmers
Volume 3 (Spring 1975)
Notes & Comments
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 4
Ivor Darreg
On the Enharmonic Tetrachord (score)
Ivor Darreg
Prelude for Guitar, in E Minor (score)
Ivor Darreg
An American Gamelan
William Colvig
On This Thing Called Scalatron
Richard J. Harasek
Scalatron Brochure (advertisement)
Richard J. Harasek
Well Tempered Notes
Richard J. Harasek
The Generalized Keyboard Scalatron
George Secor
Unified Visualization and Notation of Xenharmonic Systems
George Secor
A New Look at the Partch Monophonic Fabric
George Secor
A Phrase for Arion's Leap (score)
Lou Harrison
Preface to “Two Phrases in Free Style”
Kerry G. Lewis
Phrase in Free Style #1 (score)
Kerry G. Lewis
Phrase in Free Style #2 (score)
Kerry G. Lewis
The Application of Rothenberg's Pattern Recognition Model to the Structure of Tetrachords and Tetrachordal Scales
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
On Linear Notations and the Bosanquet Keyboard
Erv Wilson
On the Development of Intonational Systems by Extended Linear Mapping
Erv Wilson
Volume 4 (Fall 1975)
Notes and Comments
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Multiple Division of the Octave and the Tonal Resources of 19-tone Temperament: Chapter 11 - Joseph Yasser
M. Joel Mandelbaum
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 5
Ivor Darreg
Ivor Darreg's Musical Compositions Conceived for the Medium of Tape Recording (chart)
Ivor Darreg
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 6
Ivor Darreg
Episodes in the 17-Tone System (score)
Ivor Darreg
Well Tempered Notes
Richard Harasek
Specifications of the Secor Generalized Keyboard Scalatron
George Secor
Braid Piece (score)
Barbara Benary
Tonal Incarnations
Barbara Benary
Item: Five-tone, Six-tone, & Seven-tone Modal Forms within the Traditional Matrix of Two Tetrachords Separated by a Nine to Eight
Lou Harrison
Cyclic Scales
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
The 12+7+12=31 Geometry Applied to 3 Percussion Keyboards
Erv Wilson
19-tone Clavichord (advertisement)
Erv Wilson
Volume 5 (Spring 1976)
Notes & Comments
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
The Golden Net (score)
Douglas Walker
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 7
Ivor Darreg
Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously (score)
Ivor Darreg
A Symposium in the Study of Tricesimoprimal Music (advertisement)
Robert Chamberlin
The Pitches of Meantone Assigned to the 19-tone Generalized Keyboard (chart)
Erv Wilson
Some Details Concerning The 19-Tone Clavichord
Jay Scott Hackleman
Notes and Comments
George Secor
The Trouble with Equal Temperaments
George Secor
An Approach to the Construction of Microtonal Valved Brass Instruments - The French Horn
George Secor
Incidental Music for Corneille's “Cinna” (score)
Lou Harrison
Volume 6 (Summer 1977)
Notes and Comments, Six
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Manual of Quartertone Harmony (Translated from the French by Ivor Darreg)
Ivan Vyshnegradski
Piano Study #5 (for JPR) (score)
Larry Polansky
Movement for Lou Harrison, for Two Violins (score)
Larry Polansky
Eight Pieces for Harp in Ditone Diatonic (score)
Larry London
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 8
Ivor Darreg
Three Short Preludes (score)
Douglas Walker
“The Dayspring,” music for 19-tone clavichord (score)
Douglas Walker
19-Tone Scale for the Clavichord-19 (chart)
Erv Wilson
31 Tone Meantone Tuning - Link Between Past and Future
Herman Pedtke
Guitar with Interchangeable Fingerboards
A. Peter Westbrook
Volume 7+8 (Spring 1979)
Notes and Comments: Seven and Eight
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Introduction to Everything
Cris Forster
Chrysalis
Cris Forster
Harmonic/Melodic Canon IV
Cris Forster
Diamond Marimba II
Cris Forster
Ascent of the Phoenix (score)
C. Forster
“… out of fathomless Dark/into limitless Light …” (score)
Douglas Walker
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 9
Ivor Darreg
Anthracite Sweetheart (score)
Brian Hartzler
A Short History of Thirty-One Tones to the Octave
Martin Sweidel
Fantasia in 19-Tone Equal Temperament (score)
Martin Sweidel
Fabio Colonna's Sambuca
Lynn Wood Martin
Decimal Music
Gary Morrison
Decadence (score)
Gary Morrison
Item: Thoughts while Designing a Gamelan
Lou Harrison
A Chart of All Superparticular Ratios from 2/1 through 81/80 with Value (or Size) in Cents (chart)
William Colvig
Four Duets for Psaltery and Harp (score)
David Rosenthal
Helix Song (score)
David Rosenthal
Four Pieces in Didymus's Chromatic (score)
Larry London
Movement for Andréa Smith (My Funny Valentine for Just String Quartet) (score)
Larry Polansky
Binary Flute
Denny Genovese
Web of Fifths and Thirds (chart)
Scott Makeig
Polychordal Arrays of MOS Scales
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
A Collection of Scales With Nineteen Tones
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Some Additional Nineteen-tone Scales
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Volume 9 (1986)
Notes and Comments
Daniel J. Wolf
Tritriadic Scales with Seven Tones
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
A Kind Word or Two About Alexander John Ellis on the Occasion of the Centennial 1885-1985 of the Second English Edition of His Translation of and Appendix to Helmholtz's Sensations of Tone
Ivor Darreg
Without Frets (I): General Considerations
David Feldman
Going Places (score)
David Feldman
Combination-Product Set Patterns
Kraig Grady
String Quartet (1965-1975), I.S.I.M (score)
Douglas Leedy
Will You Miss Me (score)
Larry Polansky
The Marwa Permutations
Ervin M. Wilson
The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962): Notes by the Composer
La Monte Young
Volume 10 (1987)
Notes and Comments
D. J. Wolf
Monochordal Interpretations of Propositions in Euclid's Elements
Jon Barlow
Tritriadic Scales with Seven Tones, Part Two: Derived Forms and Structural Properties
John H. Chalmers, Jr.
Table of Errors in Equally-Tempered Intervals (chart)
Ivor Darreg
Four Bass Studies (what to do when the night comes…) (score)
Larry Polansky
The Purvi Modulations
Ervin M. Wilson
Trio: The Sands (music that doesn't bother) (score)
Daniel Wolf
Volume 11 (1989)
Notes and Comments
Daniel J. Wolf p. ii
Tetrachordal Scales and Complexes
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 1-20
A Question of Microtonal Notation
Ezra Sims pp. 21-24
Speculum Pélogi
D. J. Wolf pp. 25-33
Mr. Cage, His Ghosts, and Cheap Imitation(s)
Daniel J. Wolf pp. 34-42
A Linear Twenty-Nine Tone Scale
Jose L. Garcia pp. 43-45
Notes on a New Marimba, its Tuning, and its Music
Erv Wilson, Stephen Smith, and Kraig Grady pp. 46-60
Review of The Science of Musical Sound, by John R. Pierce; and Lutes, Viols and Temperaments, by Mark Lindley
Douglas Leedy pp. 61-67
Movement for Lou Harrison, for just bass quartet (score)
Larry Polansky pp. 68-89
Xenharmonikon I through Xenharmonikon X, an Index (chart)
Daniel J. Wolf pp. 90-93
Volume 12 (Spring 1989)
Notes and Comments
Daniel J. Wolf p. ii
D'alessandro, Like a Hurricane
Erv Wilson pp. 1-39
Tritriadic Scales with Seven Tones. Part Three: The M→T and D→M Matrices
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 40-68
Development of a 53-tone Keyboard Layout
Larry A. Hanson pp. 69-87
Supplement: Makers of Instruments, et cetera, Part 1 (advertisement)
Daniel J. Wolf pp. 88-89
Volume 13 (Spring 1991)
Notes and Comments
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 1-3
Information and Guidelines for Subscribers and Contributors to Xenharmonikôn
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 3-4
Biases in Xenharmonic Scales
I. Darreg and B. McLaren pp. 5-19
General Methods for Generating Musical Scales
B. McLaren pp. 20-44
Notes Towards Quasi-Tonal Treiskaidekaphilia
Paul Rapoport pp. 45-52
Three Approaches to Harmony in 13-TET
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 53-64
Interactive Program - Just Modulations (computer program)
Buzz Kimball pp. 65-66
Season of Dust (score)
Buzz Kimball pp. 67-69
T1: california duet for trombone and trombonist (score)
R. Marsanyi pp. 70-76
Composing in Seven Equal
Clem Fortuna pp. 77-79
String Quartet in Seven-Equal (score)
C. Fortuna pp. 80-85
The Discovery of a 14-tone Scale
Kraig Grady pp. 86-89
A Graphical Technique for Finding Equally-Tempered Scales by Their Harmonic Resources
Gary Morrison pp. 90-94
Review of Selected Musical Compositions (1948-1972), by Adriaan Daniël Fokker, edited by Rudolf Rasch
Douglas Leedy pp. 95-99
Review of Pitch for the International Microtonalist, Vol. 1, No. 4, edited by Johnny Reinhard
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 100-101
Review of Pitch, Pi, and Other Musical Paradoxes, by Charles E. H. Lucy
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 102-103
Resources
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 104-105
Volume 14 (Spring 1993)
Notes & Comments
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 1-2
Those Difficult Teens (and Other Microtonal Scales)
B. McLaren pp. 3-6
A Nostalgic Look at the 20s (& Other Microtonal Scales)
B. McLaren pp. 6-8
The Low Profile of Those Higher Divisions of the Octave
B. McLaren pp. 8-11
The Uses and Characteristics of Non-octave Scales
B. McLaren pp. 12-22
An Interview With Ivor Darreg About “The Xenharmonic Frontier”
B. McLaren pp. 23-39
An Analysis of Ivor Darreg's XF1, Volume 1, Number 12
B. McLaren pp. 40-49
Xenharmonic Frontier Vol. 1, No. 9: 21/oct (score)
Ivor Darreg pp. 50-52
Xenharmonic Bulletin No. 12
Ivor Darreg pp. 53-79
Horn (score)
Larry Polansky pp. 80-90
Epimores (score)
Carter Scholz pp. 91-92
An Imaginary Nocturne (score)
Douglas Walker pp. 93-108
limit19.c, a limit 19 calculator for just intonation music composition (computer program)
Matthew Walker pp. 109-113
Volume 15 (Autumn 1993)
Notes & Comments 15
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 1-2
The Tonality of the Golden Section
Walter O'Connell pp. 3-18
The Year of the Monkey
Brink McGoogy pp. 19-26
The Uses and Characteristics of Non-just Non-equal-tempered Scales
B. McLaren pp. 27-41
Circles of Fifths
B. McLaren pp. 42-51
9/Oct Piano Piece (score)
B. McLaren pp. 52-55
Giving Number a Voice
Douglas Leedy pp. 56-59
The Triadic Diamond, the Triadic Reversed Diamond and Their Constituent Tetrachords when D = 3/2
John H. Chalmers pp. 60-73
The Touch-Tone® Signal Pitches as Subsets of Stretched 14-Tone ET's
John H. Chalmers pp. 74-80
Cents and Non-Cents: Logarithmic Measures of Musical Interval Magnitude
John H. Chalmers pp. 81-95
Review of The Just Intonation Primer, by David B. Doty
John H. Chalmers, Jr. pp. 96-97
A Numerical Theory of Scale Invention
Bruce R. Gilson pp. 98-134
Volume 16 (Autumn 1995)
Notes & Comments 16
John H. Chalmers pp. 1-3
In Memoriam Ivor Darreg
John H. Chalmers pp. 4-18
Ivor Darreg: An Interview About His Life and Work
B. McLaren pp. 19-35
Macrotonal Scales
B. McLaren pp. 36-44
More About Non-Octave Scales
B. McLaren pp. 45-53
An Interview with Ralph David Hill
B. McLaren pp. 54-60
The Notation of Equal Temperaments
Paul Rapoport pp. 61-84
34-Tone Notation System Based on Adjusted 17-Tone
Gary Morrison pp. 86-91
On the Nature of Working with Performers
Kraig Grady p. 92
Centaur - A 7-Limit 12 Tone Tuning (chart)
K. Grady p. 93
A Rhythmic Application of the Horagrams
Kraig Grady pp. 94-98
Drones 1994 #2: Old Commas Inverted and Revisited (score)
Warren Burt pp. 99-102
“COMMAS” Dec. 92-Jan. 93 for Electronic Keyboard (score)
Warren Burt p. 103
A Brief History of the Lambdoma and the Musical Properties of the Computer Program for the “Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard”TM
Barbara Hero pp. 104-113
Notes on Mysteries
Neil Haverstick pp. 114-115
Mysteries (score)
Neil Haverstick pp. 116-117
Studien im Gebiet der reinen Stimmung (A Translation of Pages 8 to 18 by Daniel J. Wolf)
Shohé Tanaka pp. 118-125
Review of Principios de la Gama Dinámica, by Eduardo Sábat Garibaldi
John Chalmers pp. 126-127
Volume 17 (Spring 1998)
Notes & Comments 17
John H. Chalmers pp. 1-3
Notes on Lattice: one approach to dynamic tuning
Carter Scholz pp. 4-8
34-ET Notation System Based on Major and Minor Thirds
Larry A. Hanson pp. 9-11
Tuning, Tonality and Twenty-Two-Tone Temperament
Paul Erlich pp. 12-40
The Musical Animal's Musical Adventures
Heinz Bohlen pp. 41-56
A Brief History of Microtonality in the Twentieth Century
B. McLaren pp. 57-110
The Number of 23-Prime-Limit Superparticular Ratios Less than 10,000,000
John H. Chalmers pp. 111-115
Pitch, Scale and Tuning in Rusty: A Fuzzy Logic Approach to the Tuning Problem
Michael Saunders and Michael Greenhough pp. 116-119
Review of On the Relations of Tone, by Martin Vogel
Douglas Leedy pp. 120-123
Letter to the Editor Heinz Bohlen p. 124
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