Re: The 20 pieces to be retuned into adaptive 5-limit JI

--- In crazy_music@y..., xed@e... wrote:
> FROM: mclaren
> TO: new practical microtonality list
> SUBJECT: The 20 pieces to be retuned into adaptive 5-limit JI
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> [1] "Rag-Caprice" by Darius Milhaud (from "Trois Rag-
> Caprices")
>
> [2] Dance Piece from "Klaviermusik" Op. 37 II by Paul
> Hindemith
>
> [3] Vision Fugitive No. 16 from Op. 22 by Sergei Prokofiev
>
> [4] Piano Moods No. 1: "Pensive" by William Schuman
>
> [5] "Sway Dance" by Henry Cowell
>
> [6] "The Wind on the Plain" from Preludes Livre I by Claude
> Debussy
>
> [7] Poem, opus 31. No. 2, by Alexander Scriabin
>
> [8] Prelude from "Pour Le Piano" by Claude Debussy
>
> [9] "Major Seconds Broken and Together" from Mikrocosmos by
> Bela Bartok
>
> [10] "The Alcotts" from Second ("Concord") Piano Sonata
> by Charles Ives
>
> [11] "Carillon" from "Eleven Children's Pieces" by Alfredo
> Casella
>
> [12] Nocturne in C-sharp minor by Frederic Chopin
>
> [13] Sonata No. 317 by Scarlatti
>
> [14] John Bull: Fantasia Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La
>
> [15] Passacaglia for organ by Georg Muffat
>
> [16] Tocatta from Organ Symphonie No. VI by
> Charles-Marie Widor
>
> [17] Capriccio Cromatico Con Ligatore Al Contrario
> by Girolamo Frescobaldi
>
> [18] Fantasia-Suite No. 14 by John Coprario
>
> [19] Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 by Franz Liszt
> (piano reduction -- there exist a number)
>
> [20] Tocatta for harpsichord No. 3 by J. S. Bach
>
> ---------
> --mclaren

Looks like a well chosen cross section.

[mclaren wrote:]
>As promised, here are the 20 source pieces. Jeff Scott (or
>someone else) should use a random number generator to pick
>10 different numbers between 1 and 20. Those will be the pieces
>chosen at random from this list for John deLaubenfels to actually
>retune into adaptive 5-limit JI.

Certainly some of these will be what I would consider more appropriate
for my treatment than others, but I'm perfectly willing to throw _any_
sequence against my methods for comment. Sometimes when I think the
results are horrible, someone else may come along and love it. We shall
see.

You do realize that I need actual _sequences_ of these pieces, yes?
Have you made your selections based upon knowledge that sequence(s)
exist? If so, please tell me where I might find them. If not, I
suggest a new list (your choice) of pieces that are out there in GM.

>To avoid deliberate or inadvertant problems, John deLaubenfels
>should send the retuned MIDI files to a third party to realize them
>as recordings and turn them into MP3 files.

OK by me.

>John deLaubenfels can send the retuned MIDI files to me, if
>he likes, or to a third party if he would feel more comfortable.

I'll send them to you if you'd like. Are you going to unblock me from
e-mailing you, or shall I send them through a third party?

>The 10 MIDI files should be recorded twice: once using
>adaptive 5-limit JI, and a second time using 12 equal.

Right.

>Non-identical sections (around one minute in length) from
>each of the 20 MIDI files (retuned and 12 equal) should be
>scrambled randomly in such a way that neither the person
>who does it nor anyone else knows which file is retuned and
>which is 12-equal. I have previously described a method
>of writing a PASCAL program to write a DOS batch file
>which will do this.

I'm not following this. Why not present the entire piece? I'm willing
to trust that you'll render the MIDI faithfully, and that you'll choose
random names for the MP3 files. As long as you pledge not to cast a
vote yourself (since you'd know which was which), that'd be enough to
satisfy me.

JdL