Other Partch Scales
The 43-tone scale was published in Genesis of a Music, and is sometimes known as the Genesis scale, or Partch's pure scale. Other scales he used or considered include a 29-tone scale for adapted viola from 1928, a 37-tone scale from an unpublished manuscript titled Exposition on Monophony from 1933, a 39-tone scale proposed for a keyboard, and a 41-tone scale and an alternative 43-tone scale from Exposition on Monophony.
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