Paul Erlich
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Paul Erlich (born 1972) is a guitarist and music theorist living near Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for his seminal role in developing the theory of regular temperaments, including being the first to define pajara temperament[1][2] and its decatonic scales in 22-ET.[3] He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Yale University.
His definition of harmonic entropy influenced by Ernst Terhardt[4] has received attention from music theorists such as William Sethares. It is intended to model one of the components of dissonance as a measure of the uncertainty of the virtual pitch ("missing fundamental") evoked by a set of two or more pitches.
References
- ^ "Pajara", on Xenharmonic Wiki. Accessed 2013-10-29.[dead link]
- ^ ""Alternate Tunings Mailing List", Yahoo! Groups". Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Erlich, Paul (1998). "Tuning, Tonality, and Twenty-Two-Tone Temperament" (PDF). Xenharmonikôn. 17.
- ^ Sethares, William A. (2004). Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale (PDF). pp. 355–357.
External links
- "Some music theory from Paul Erlich", Lumma.org.
- "A Middle Path: Between Just Intonation and the Equal Temperaments", DKeenan.com.
- "Harmonic Entropy", en.xen.wiki