Novemeber 2005:

Richard Burdick's I ching music structure is under revision.

I am now in the third period of my organization of scales.

The new organization (third period)
Includes the eight major scales and the 56 minor scales
It has a way to veiw the system in a very natural microtonal way or in a way that will fit with equal temperment.

Second period
I use the same relationship of line to half or whole step but most of the trigrams are separated by a fifth.
This was transitioned in around opus 77 and I may still be using these for equal temperament pieces.

In the first period, or method of organizing tones in relationship to the I Ching, I use the solid lines as whole steps and the broken lines as half steps & I don't seperate the hexigrams by the interval of the fifth.
This type of scale is used from about opus 17 to opus 77.

I Ching links:

What is the I ching?

Shau Yung's circle

Why scales?

7 or 8 tone scales?

Fixed tonics?

1st period organization

2nd period organization

ways to use this in music

A 432

the 64 harmonics

Colour in music

3rd period organization

4th period organization

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