Re:Music theory for nerds (2016)
by Ataraxiaist on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:42AM
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Wendy Carlos Beauty and the Beast is my fav non 12-tet piece of music. It is in two scales she made up herself
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2j1gy2
Terry Riley's Harp of New Albion is awesome as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6tptdvQbos
Harry Partch - Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales is so haunting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GglpEGSXpXo
Re:Music theory for nerds (2016)
by lewispollard on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @12:29PM
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I haven't listened to the piece, but afaik typically transposing existing 12TET pieces into microtonal tunings are taking the intervals in the original piece and applying them to scales in the new tuning, with some creative license/taste to embellish where it doesn't sound so good. So it's not ignoring or limiting any pitches to my (limited) understanding, other than the natural way that pieces written in a particular key/mode will skip over some tones in favour of others for harmonic or melodic reasons.
I would guess you're right but I'm not 100% sure! This channel is pretty responsive, you ask on the video.
This one is fascinating too - it's just intonation vs 12edo comparison. You can really hear all the beating in the harmonics in the EDO one.
To my ear it sounds like there are way more major thirds than there normally would be in a Bach piece like this... anything else I ought to be hearing?