All good-sounding, choral 13th chords

Here is a PDF of all good-sounding choral 13th chords (excluding transpositions) along with a MIDI. It contains 203 chords in an extreme choral range: F2 to A5, sorted in an order useful for music composition purposes.

This list also contains about fifteen chords which don't sound as good. However, I didn't detect a pattern I could use, in order to remove them automatically.

I removed all chords containing:

• Minor seconds;
• Minor ninths;
• Tritones;
• Two consecutive major seconds;
• More than two major seconds;
• Major seconds starting lower than F3 or higher than F4;
• Gaps greater than an octave which resume higher than F4.

Copyright (c) 2015 Mark D. Blackwell.

Greek language history

Some time ago, I took notes on an interesting book about the history of Greek: The Greek Language, B.F.C. Atkinson, 1931.

My notes touch on:

• Greek's linguistic sources in other cultures.
• A history of pitch accents in Greek.
• The Septuagint translation (into Greek)'s impact on (Greek) vocabulary and modes of expression.
• Linguistic and stylistic currents (from the Septuagint and Aramaic) in the New Testament.
• A comparison of Plato with the (Greek) New Testament, regarding each's linguistic impact.
• Greek and English linguistic histories compared.
• Linguistic change depends upon political and social development.

The notes: page 1, page 2, page 3.

Copyright (c) 2015 Mark D. Blackwell.