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THE WILSON ARCHIVES

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WE PROUDLY PRESENT THE AUTHORIZED ARCHIVES OF ERV WILSON'S MICROTONAL AND JUST INTONATION THEORIES. OUR PURPOSE IS TO ALLOW WILSON'S WORKS TO "SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES". THOSE POSSESSING OTHER UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS OF WILSON SHOULD CONSIDER THEM "PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS" TO BE USED ONLY WITH HIS CONSENT. COMMENTS ARE SOLELY THE VIEWPOINTS OF THE AUTHORS.

 


* after title denotes recently updated or added

SOME BASIC PAPERS, SCALES AND INSTRUMENT DESIGNS*

The Harmonic and Subharmonic Series (and dual combinations) - Moments of Symmetry - Diatonic Extensions and the Scales of India - Papers on various Equal Divisions - Tetrachordal scales - Constant Structures and Larger Just Intonation Scales


KEYBOARD DESIGNS/ BONSANQUET, WILSON, HANSON*

Bosanquet 7 rank Keyboard, Classification of Tonal Systems, Linear Notation, and Development of Extended Linear Mapping - Clavichord Mappings - Gral Keyboard Guide - Gral Spectrum -The Alphabet Series - Variation on the 4/7 Keyboard - Patents 1967 & 1961 - Moog Letter - Hopkins Letter - Diophantine Intervals from Temperament Intervals - Diophantine Intervals from Recurrent Intervals - Lambdoma Layouts on Keyboard - Co-Prime Quadrants - Chain of 7s Keyboard - Hanson's Keyboard and Mallet Designs - Keyboard Schemata of the Scale Tree


THE SCALE TREE AND THE HOROGRAMS*

The Scale Tree- The Rabbit Sequence - Horograms - Straight Line Patterns plus Intersections - Nested Two Interval Patterns - Epimore Tree - Other Horograms - Pillars of Zig-Zags - Walter O'Connell Letter - Kornerup


THE DIAMONDS, OTHER LAMBDOMAS AND THE CO-PRIME GRID*

Partch and other Diamonds -Farey Series and Lambdomas - Augusto Novaro - Co-Prime Grid - Pecan Tree Patterns


THE HEXANY, THE EIKOSANY, AND THE OTHER COMBINATION PRODUCT SETS*

Fokker Letter - Chalmers Letter on the CPS -D'Alessandro -Torus - The Hexany, Dekany, and Higher Constructs - Hebdomekontany Chalmers Letter - The Euler Genera - Penrose Tilings - CPS Keyboard Mappings


SCALES FROM THE SLOPES OF MT MERU*

The Scales of Mt. Meru - Meru Exploratory Triangles - Meru and the Sums of The Diagonals - Meta Meantone & Meta Mavila - Extended Diagonals and Recurrent Sequences - Meru Spirals - Lucas Triangle - Chinese Triangle - Golden Pelog Sequence - Cactus Zig-Zag - Lucy Letter - Harrisonian Resonant Triads


TOOLS AND TREASURES

Uncatagorizable Papers - Useful tools and keys - Papers in progress or awaiting explanation.


THE MAIN LIBRARY

These papers, most selected by Wilson, are considered by him to be of high quality and often bear a strong relationship to his own work.


A COLLECTION OF WILSON BASED SCALA FILES