Posted on Sep 13, 2015
How often do you willingly listen to music played on irregular music scales?
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Charles Ives - Piano Sonata No.2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860"
Stephen Drury, piano; Jessi Rosinski, flute Charles Ives (1874-1954) Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860" • Emerson • Hawthorne • The Alcotts • Th...
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Add points for non-12-tone scales? Easley Blackwood has done some very interesting stuff.
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SGT (Join to see)
Really? I'll have to check that out. I was told to check out Charles Ives, and that video I added is very interesting.
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SP5 Michael Rathbun
In the even tempered scale that came into use when instruments began to be able to span more than an octave or two, the frequency of the note one half-step above a given note is the given note's frequency multiplied by the twelfth root of two. So if A is 440 Hz, then B-flat is 466.16376... Hz. This gives us an octave of twelve notes, and the various harmonic relationships work out well enough not to set most peoples teeth on edge, especially if they did not grow up hearing a "natural" scale.
If you have more or fewer notes in an octave, the factor changes -- imagine a scale of 19 notes, e.g. Imagine a sound profoundly different from what you are used to.
Dr Blackwood has both imagined this, and composed and performed works in scales beyond 12.
I trust you will find it interesting.
If you have more or fewer notes in an octave, the factor changes -- imagine a scale of 19 notes, e.g. Imagine a sound profoundly different from what you are used to.
Dr Blackwood has both imagined this, and composed and performed works in scales beyond 12.
I trust you will find it interesting.
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Beethovens 5th as salsa arr: Sverre Indris Joner
AVAILABLE on DVD/CD (yes its the same concert, but a different cover...): http://www.tigernet.no/item/140216--hoved%C3%B8en-social-club--en-natt-forbi-med-ko...
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SGT (Join to see)
I'm actually listening to that right now, but no. Did you listen to the example provided and the pitch of the notes?
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SGT(P) (Join to see)
SGT (Join to see) I did, there's a lot of syncopation in the one I posted. And, also, is an irregular version of the 5th symphony so I thought it was according the line of the discussion.
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