A composition from October 2005

This got lost in the swamp of "hemiola" messages in metatuning:

http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/Madwoman.ogg

Theme and Variations from The Madwoman of Chaillot... This piece was
written in October of 2005 for the Artistic Home's production of The
Madwoman of Chaillot. It consists of a theme and four variations for
accordian and piano.

The theme itself is in a Parisian cafe style. The variations are odes to
various composers-- variation 1 is a Rossini-style tarantella,
variation 2 is a broad classically styled texture with a seriousness
a-la-Beethoven, variation 3 is a canonic ode to Bach with some jazzy
swing rhythms, and finally, a blitzkrieg presto which takes it's
inspiration from a Chopin prelude. The theme is heard again at the end.

Enjoy!
Aaron.

On 4/23/06, Aaron Krister Johnson <aaron@akjmusic.com> wrote:
>
> This got lost in the swamp of "hemiola" messages in metatuning:
>
> http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/Madwoman.ogg
[...]

Nice work! What tuning is it in? Personally I can't tell it from
12-edo, although it could be in a slight meantone.

BTW, thanks for just posting a link to the ogg instead of some web
page where I have to jump through hoops.

Keenan

Keenan,

{you wrote...}
>Nice work! What tuning is it in? Personally I can't tell it from 12-edo, although it could be in a slight meantone.

If I may, I actually suggested to Aaron he post here. Why? Well, it's in 12, but he has been a long-standing member of MMM and I thought the piece was so well done it merited hearing from the assembled multitudes. I've always thought the last M was the most important. :)

Cheers,
Jon

>This got lost in the swamp of "hemiola" messages in metatuning:
>
>http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/Madwoman.ogg
>
>Theme and Variations from The Madwoman of Chaillot... This piece was
>written in October of 2005 for the Artistic Home's production of The
>Madwoman of Chaillot. It consists of a theme and four variations for
>accordian and piano.
>
>The theme itself is in a Parisian cafe style. The variations are odes to
>various composers-- variation 1 is a Rossini-style tarantella,
>variation 2 is a broad classically styled texture with a seriousness
>a-la-Beethoven, variation 3 is a canonic ode to Bach with some jazzy
>swing rhythms, and finally, a blitzkrieg presto which takes it's
>inspiration from a Chopin prelude. The theme is heard again at the end.
>
>Enjoy!
>Aaron.

Is there something microtonal about it?

-C.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@...> wrote:

> Is there something microtonal about it?
>

in truth, i believe i had the korg X5DR set to neidhardt 1. so in a
*very mild* sense, yes.

failing that, you could say that each chromatic step is close to 18/17
apart!

-aaron

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Krister Johnson"
<aaron@...> wrote:
>
> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@> wrote:
>
> > Is there something microtonal about it?
>
> in truth, i believe i had the korg X5DR set to neidhardt 1. so in a
> *very mild* sense, yes.
>
> failing that, you could say that each chromatic step is close to
18/17
> apart!
>
> -aaron

Aaron, this is really very nice. I especially liked variation 3.

Since the rest of my reply is somewhat OT, I've posted it on the main
list:

/tuning/topicId_59689.html#66183

--George