Re: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring animated score

Can't go wrong with this piece. Was the tuning 12-ET? Why not
spice it up?

If you like visualizing MIDI files, you might try this
http://www.musanim.com/player/
software from a friend of mine. I think you can just have
pianoteq send MIDI thru to this and get the same effect.
Run pianoteq in stand-alone mode to get SONAR out of the way.

-Carl

At 05:15 PM 2/1/2010, you wrote:
>I was playing with screen capture today and produced a piano reduced animated score and player piano of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring from a series of midi files I obtained back in the 90's.
>
>104 meg wmv file HD resolution.
>
><http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/classical-music/stravinsky-rite-of-spring-animated-score.wmv>http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/classical-music/stravinsky-rite-of-spring-animated-score.wmv
>
>No I don't know if this is 100% correct - seems close enough to me without direct comparison.
>The software used was Sonar 8.5 (with brain dead handling of accidentals) and Pianoteq 3.5
>
>Pretty easy to do - mostly set and forget.
>
>I really enjoy watching the score as classical music plays - perhaps you will too!
>
>Chris

Carl,
Thanks! This software looks really interesting.

What alternate tuning would you (or anyone else) suggest for a piece like this?

Chris

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:
>
> Can't go wrong with this piece. Was the tuning 12-ET? Why not
> spice it up?
>
> If you like visualizing MIDI files, you might try this
> http://www.musanim.com/player/
> software from a friend of mine. I think you can just have
> pianoteq send MIDI thru to this and get the same effect.
> Run pianoteq in stand-alone mode to get SONAR out of the way.
>
> -Carl
>

>
> http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/classical-music/stravinsky-rite-of-spring-animated-score.wmv

Thanks!
I really enjoyed that!

And indeed nice to see the score and pianokeys, it does add to it.

Marcel

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Chris wrote:

>Carl,
>Thanks! This software looks really interesting.
>
>What alternate tuning would you (or anyone else) suggest for a piece
>like this?

Good question. It's a long piece so it's hard to just audition
a bunch of tunings. It also gets around quite a bit, so it'll
probably wind up that something very close to 12-ET is preferred.
But I might take a few bars from different parts of the piece as
audition material and try things like

diminished[12]
augene[12]
dominant[12]
pajara[12]
stretchtone[12]
superpythag[12]

If none of those work (and they may not), go for a well temperament
like alaska7. See below for scala files for these.

-Carl

!
4 periods of 5-limit diminished, 3 tones each.
12
!
94.0
188.0
300.0
394.0
488.0
600.0
694.0
788.0
900.0
994.0
1088.0
2/1
!
! Unison vector 648/625.
! Carl Lumma for Kurt Bigler, 2003.

!
TOP augene (formerly tripletone), 7-limit, Paul Erlich.
12
!
92.5
184.9
306.6
399.0
491.5
583.9
705.6
798.0
890.5
983.0
1104.6
1197.1
!

!
TOP dominant, 7-limit, Paul Erlich.
12
!
88.9
177.9
292.4
381.4
495.9
584.8
699.4
788.3
877.2
991.8
1080.7
1195.2
!

!
TOP pajara, 7-limit, Paul Erlich.
12
!
106.57
213.14
319.71
385.31
491.88
598.45
705.02
811.59
918.16
983.76
1090.33
1196.90
!

!
TOP stretchtone, 7-limit, Paul Erlich.
12
!
118.5
195.4
313.9
390.8
509.3
627.8
704.7
823.2
900.1
1018.6
1095.5
1214.0
!

!
Superpythagorean scale in 22-ET.
12
!
109.091 !....2
218.182 !....4
327.273 !....6
436.364 !....8
545.455 !...10
600.000 !...11
709.091 !...13
818.182 !...15
927.273 !...17
1036.364 !..19
1145.455 !..21
2/1 !.......22
!

!
Alaska 7, Carl Lumma, 18 Feb 2007.
12
!
92.096
197.411
293.913
394.822
495.731
592.233
697.548
794.051
894.960
995.868
1092.371
1197.686
!
! 4 x 395-cent 3rds on C G D A.
! 4 x 399-cent 3rds on Bb F E B.
! 4 x 403-cent 3rds elsewhere.
!
! Also 1/9-comma zeta tuning, SSSSSSSLSLSL.