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Old 26th March 2013, 03:35 PM   #94
calebprime
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Forget 14, Jake, it's Chinatown.

If you want the series to map to diatonic (7-note) scales -- the whole reason you were struggling with 14 in the first place -- just use the 16 or 12 or 10-note versions, and map to 7, and just live with the fact that the mapping is less elegant, and you can't always get the best contour fit to produce an octave relationship.

Just walk away from 14. That way lies madness. Or, start a piece with a 14-note pattern, but don't try to get there after the fact, after the horse has already left the barn. Don't try this Procrustean bed in Chinatown, to mix your metaphors.

Use the work you've done so far and continue on and write a piece. Life is short. Chinatown is only a movie.
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