Stage Two Stories

 Word game. All the words in a set of parens form compound words or common two word phrases with one other word. Substitute to decode.

     I left my (Alicia, piano, skeleton, Florida) and (boxing, wedding, nose, onion) in the (dog, rose, bread, dust) by the (back, screen, barn, trap) last (owl, watch, crawler, court).

    My (god, time, figure, step)'s (bosom, zone, false, family) got (fiddler, hermit, coconut, blue)s when he was in the (fresh, dead, raid, pollution) (feed, field, work, repulsive).

    The (body, council, loan, exchange) hoped to one (may, care, lily, holy) make (dance, bridge, trading, silent) at a (canon, case, common, natural) (belief, stand, tofu, holding).

    I have a (cape, irrational, monger, less) of (chocolate, duds, weed, coconut) (range, trouble, star, gallery) out of my (cone, ring, roman, bottle) when I (evil, belly, riot, track).

Some friends submitted more puzzles, which I've edited slightly for parallelism with the other ones:

    Chinese (ball, man, cabinet, radio) practitioners grind (snaps, bread, ale, bug), ginseng, (lime, Mixolydian, armor, model)s, and (shoe, car, rimmed, air)s to cure you.

    For (rope, rug, after, Indian) night I made (sour, runner, mash, rye) (cranberry, weak, pan, apple) with pudding for my (check, stale, paper, soul)s.

    The (jet, lamp, hole, sheep) (market, naked, hug, down) chased my (prairie, house, tired, guide) all the way (base, row, run, dream).

Skyward Microtonal's Neutral Scale Modes

Skyward Microtonal is the youtube channel of microtonalist Jude Mason. He has some cool 24-EDO scales. Let's have a look.

He starts by combining the major and minor scales, or Ionian and Aelian modes, into one called the neutral scale (or Iolian mode).

Between the scales of C major and and C minor, [C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C] and [C, D, Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb, C], we obviously can interpolate with half flats, giving

    [C, D, Ed, F, G, Ad, Bd, C]

Every rotation of this scale will also be an interpolation between two western modes,a nd Mason gives them cute names that combine the names of the parent scales.

1. Iolian: [C, D, Ed, F, G, Ad, Bd, C]

2. Dorlocrian: [D, Ed, F, G, Ad, Bd, C, D]

3. Phrygionian: [Ed, F, G, Ad, Bd, C, D, Ed]

4. Lydorian: [F, G, Ad, Bd, C, D, Ed, F]

5. Mixophrygian: [G, Ad, Bd, C, D, Ed, F, G]

6. Aeolydian: [Ad, Bd, C, D, Ed, F, G, Ad]

7. Mixolocrian: [Bd, C, D, Ed, F, G, Ad, Bd]

There are a lot of critical comments on the video, but I find all of these interesting, compelling, functional. They're good scales. I think they'd work well on an oud or qanun or violin or clarinet.

Here are the modes written in 24-EDO steps, in both relative and absolute terms:

    Mode 1: [4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3] : [0, 4, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24]

    Mode 2: [3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4] : [0, 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24]

    Mode 3: [3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3] : [0, 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24]

    Mode 4: [4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3] : [0, 4, 7, 11, 14, 18, 21, 24]

    Mode 5: [3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4] : [0, 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 20, 24]

    

    Mode 6: [4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3] : [0, 4, 7, 11, 14, 17, 21, 24]

    

    Mode 7: [3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4] : [0, 3, 7, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24]

I don't think any of these are standard arabic maqamat. They're new and they're cool.

If you're interesting in your scale having a perfect fourth and a perfect fifth, then modes 1, 3, and 5 are for you.