Prelude in 9ET

New piece written over the past few days, uploaded here:

http://www.h-pi.com/downloads.html

Prelude in 9ET is my first effort in this tuning, a slow dance piece
in 6/8, about 6 minutes long. Versions are uploaded for classical
guitar and piano as MIDI files and an mp3 using Logic's Classical
Guitar sample.

I've become very fond of 9ET while working on this. I first saw
9ET in its relation to 12ET as three augmented triads, where the
scale steps between them could only be used as m2 / M7s but
not as M2 / m7. I found this works pretty well, and the rules can also
be bent a little. Major and minor thirds both work well, and the minor has
a nice septimal resonance. The fifths have to be used with caution
harmonically, but melodically and in arpeggios I find the sound of the
4ths and 5ths exciting, and I used lots of circle of fifths progressions.
Feedback welcome as always, and of course I'm interested to hear
other things in 9ET, so please alert me. Enjoy!

Yours,
Aaron Hunt
H-Pi Instruments

Don't mean to chime in just to say your music reminds me of
some famous classical piece or another, but this reminds me
in a bizarre way of "Thou shalt break them" from the Messiah.

-Carl

At 01:21 PM 6/28/2007, you wrote:
>New piece written over the past few days, uploaded here:
>
>http://www.h-pi.com/downloads.html
>
>Prelude in 9ET is my first effort in this tuning, a slow dance piece
>in 6/8, about 6 minutes long. Versions are uploaded for classical
>guitar and piano as MIDI files and an mp3 using Logic's Classical
>Guitar sample.
>
>I've become very fond of 9ET while working on this. I first saw
>9ET in its relation to 12ET as three augmented triads, where the
>scale steps between them could only be used as m2 / M7s but
>not as M2 / m7. I found this works pretty well, and the rules can also
>be bent a little. Major and minor thirds both work well, and the minor
>has
>a nice septimal resonance. The fifths have to be used with caution
>harmonically, but melodically and in arpeggios I find the sound of the
>4ths and 5ths exciting, and I used lots of circle of fifths
>progressions.
>Feedback welcome as always, and of course I'm interested to hear
>other things in 9ET, so please alert me. Enjoy!
>
>Yours,
>Aaron Hunt
>H-Pi Instruments