Cardinality invariance
All isomorphic note-layouts, by definition, have the property of transpositional invariance: the same fingering in every key.
Non-trivial isomorphic keyboards also have the property of tuning invariance: the same fingering in every tuning (of those temperaments with the same generators as the note-layout).
I've blogged before about the fact that the Wicki note-layout has another invariant property, not yet named: its fingering patterns are the same for well-formed scales of any cardinality (again, assuming that the layout and temperament use the same generators). However, that property has not yet been assigned a name.
I hereby define cardinality invariance as "the same fingering in every well-formed scale, regardless of cardinality" (for a given generator-pair).
JIMS' (Wicki) note-layout has this property. The Wesley note-layout has it, too. Most other isomorphic note-layouts don't have it. I don't yet know what mathematical characteristics confer it. But now, at least, it has a name: cardinality invariance.
Non-trivial isomorphic keyboards also have the property of tuning invariance: the same fingering in every tuning (of those temperaments with the same generators as the note-layout).
I've blogged before about the fact that the Wicki note-layout has another invariant property, not yet named: its fingering patterns are the same for well-formed scales of any cardinality (again, assuming that the layout and temperament use the same generators). However, that property has not yet been assigned a name.
I hereby define cardinality invariance as "the same fingering in every well-formed scale, regardless of cardinality" (for a given generator-pair).
JIMS' (Wicki) note-layout has this property. The Wesley note-layout has it, too. Most other isomorphic note-layouts don't have it. I don't yet know what mathematical characteristics confer it. But now, at least, it has a name: cardinality invariance.
Labels: isomorphism, JiMS, music theory


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