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My first microtonal musical post

🔗stephenszpak <stephen_szpak@...>

12/24/2005 8:29:11 AM

TO ALL

In the files section you can hear my first microtonal
musical posting ( to be deleted in a week or two). It
was played live/real time using my 24 note-per-octave
scale (extremely close to quartertone).

File name is:

C-F#xm-Ax-Ex

Basically it is a 20 second piece in piano that uses these
4 chords.
(Had to keep the "F#xm" horizontal in the file name. This
is not how I do it really when I write chord progressions
down at home.) So if you are interested,the 'x' means the
'note above'. That is Ax is the 'note' above A. In this
case it would be the harmonic 7th. The 'm' means the chord
is minor. Since this scale is closely related to quartertone
the major and minor and perfect fifth ratios are exactly the
same as in 12 EDO.

C is C major chord
F#xm is minor chord that has root at about 661 cents
Ax is major chord that has root at about 961 cents
Ex is major chord that has root at about 461 cents

Comments are welcome.

Stephen Szpak