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Volume control to enhance partials.

🔗traktus5 <kj4321@...>

11/11/2005 9:29:51 AM

Hello! One of the things I'm getting out of this acoustic study is,
in a piano piece I'm writing, attention to the dynamic of each note in
a chord, to enhance what I think are certain partials. But I can't
figure out which string the activity comesd from

For example, one measure I"m writing boils down to 3 three chords at
the following volumes (parenthesis indicate notes tied over):

c4-e4-g4-c5 (pianissimo)
(c4-e4-g4-c5)-g5 (fortisimmo on the g5)
c#4-(g4-c5-g5) (ppp on the c3)

The third chord is the question. The partials almost buzz, in a very
active way. On which note, you think, are the partials most active?
Is it on the triple pianissimo c#4, which, being soft, reveals it's
softer upper partials. Or is it the fortisismo g5?

thanks, Kelly

🔗wallyesterpaulrus <wallyesterpaulrus@...>

11/14/2005 3:42:08 PM

--- In harmonic_entropy@yahoogroups.com, "traktus5" <kj4321@h...>
wrote:
>
> Hello! One of the things I'm getting out of this acoustic study
is,
> in a piano piece I'm writing, attention to the dynamic of each note
in
> a chord, to enhance what I think are certain partials. But I can't
> figure out which string the activity comesd from
>
> For example, one measure I"m writing boils down to 3 three chords
at
> the following volumes (parenthesis indicate notes tied over):
>
> c4-e4-g4-c5 (pianissimo)
> (c4-e4-g4-c5)-g5 (fortisimmo on the g5)
> c#4-(g4-c5-g5) (ppp on the c3)

You mean on the c5?

> The third chord is the question. The partials almost buzz, in a
very
> active way. On which note, you think, are the partials most
active?

I don't know what you mean. If you mean beating, it takes partials
from more than one note to produce it.

> Is it on the triple pianissimo c#4, which, being soft, reveals it's
> softer upper partials. Or is it the fortisismo g5?