---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 2/27/02 12:41:12 PM Central Standard Time,=20 dm.porritt@verizon.net (David M. Porritt) writes: > To show my ignorance of the esoterica in micro tuning, what are the >=20 Imagine a the standard 12 note keyboard but each of the black keys are slit=20 into two keys and in between the white keys, E & F and B & C, there is now a= =20 single black key. Tune that whole arrangement in ET and you'd have what thi= s=20 post refers to. By coincidence, the 1/3 Comma Meantone has the same pitches as the 19 note E= T=20 but 7 of them are left out. It is a really weird sounding temperament. The= =20 consonant major chords have this slowly dripping sound to them which reminds= =20 me of a Salvador Dali painting. The consonant minor chords have pure minor=20 3rds which are downright depressing. The dissonant intervals have to be=20 heard to be believed. The "wolf" is 55 cents wide, enough to make a dog how= l. The composer, Thomas Salinas of the 15th Century (if I remember correctly)= =20 was known for using this temperament. I would imagine for funeral music on=20 the organ in particular. The dissonant side and the very unequal intervals=20 sound to me like much of the qualities associated with the Gamelon music of=20 Southeast Asia. It has an other worldly sound like none other. I listened to as much as I could of the Ravel. In my opinion, it sounded=20 ridiculous and I did not see the point of it at all. It was one of Ravel's=20 pieces originally written for piano but is best known in its orchestrated=20 arrangement with French Horn. It is a tender and sweetly sad piece. What I= =20 heard (and what I heard of it was far too much) sounded tinny, mechanical,=20 plodding in rhythym (rather than flowing) and out of tune. I would have rather heard it played well and properly in ET than what I hear= d=20 on the Net. Last year, I heard a particularly fine interpretation on a Kawa= i=20 9 foot Concert grand in 1/7 Comma Meantone played by French pianist, D=E9sir= =E9=20 N'Kaoua. I have never once heard any of these more than 12 note ET ideas=20 played on a crummy synthesizer which didn't first of all sound out of tune=20 enough to truly give me a sick feeling and also be so badly played as to be=20 musical rubbish. It's certainly not anything I'll ever be interested in. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF=3D"http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=3Dw w w . b i l l b r= e m m e r . c o m =3D-</A>=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/50/cb/cd/27/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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