Qualities of 17-tET: MIDI examples

Hello, there, and here's a very important addition to my earlier post
about 17-tET: some actual musical examples.
There's a song, one of my big hits around 30 years ago, from the
early 14th century with the refrain: "This song wants drink," for me
a Diet 7-Up, but anyway translating for me also, "This post wants
MIDI examples."
First, here's a usual neo-Gothic cadence in 17-tET, with regular
major third expanding to fifth and major sixth to octave:
http://value.net/~mschulter/17tet001.mid

We could spell the unstable sonority as E4-G#4-C#5 (about 0-423-918
cents), and the resolution as D4-A4-D5 (0-706-1200 cents), based on a
chain of regular fifths from Eb-G#, either as a 12-out-of-17 tuning
or as part of a full 17-note tuning. I mention this for people who
may want to try this progression on synthesizers or the like.

Now here's a "different" version, with the accent on _neo_-Gothic,
featuring an augmented sixth or "neutral seventh":
http://value.net/~mschulter/17tet002.mid

We could spell this version as Eb4-G#4-C#5 (about 0-565-1059 cents),
with an augmented sixth in place of the usual major sixth, and also a
colorful augmented third (the same size in 17 as a diminished fifth)
between the lower pair of voices.

Now here's another version with that augmented sixth:
http://value.net/~mschulter/17tet003.mid

We could spell this as Eb4-G4-C#5 (about 0-423-1059 cents), with a
tritone between the upper voices.

Anyway, maybe these examples can make things a bit more concrete.

Most appreciatively, Margo

Anyway, maybe these examples can make things a bit more concrete.

They do. I apprecite them greatly, especially being able to just
flip through them and actually hear the differences.
I like em all with the last piquing my interest the most for what
might follow it in resolving the lower voices.

Mary

--- In crazy_music@y..., MSCHULTER@V... wrote:

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> Hello, there, and here's a very important addition to my earlier
post about 17-tET: some actual musical examples.

I just wanted to post a brief comment (although I realize I must keep
my digressions to a minimum) as to how wonderful it is to finally be
able to hear some of the progressions/inventions in neo-Gothic style
with which Marto Schulter has been working...

I've always found her posts interesting, but these "sound
demonstrations" really add a significant dimension which, previously,
had only been in my imagination. Fortunately, what I *had* been
imagining turns out to be somewhat like the actuality, but it is,
naturally, most valuable to hear the "real thing..."

Thanks so much again...

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Joseph Pehrson