Te Deum Laudamus in Soft Meantone

Hey all,

I have created a folder called (for want of something more original)
"jlsmith" in the group files. There you will find an mp3 of a very short
exercise in 4-part harmony. Just testing some old college harmony
skills, because RUST NEVER SLEEPS, man.

"Te Deum Laudamus" is very loosely based upon a fragment of Anglican
plainchant melody & harmonized by Your Humble Narrator. Just to be an
irritant, I tuned it to my very own (I think) Soft Meantone:

J.Smith soft meantone 12 of 52et

0: 1/1 0.000 unison, perfect prime
1: 46.154 cents 46.154
2: 184.615 cents 184.615
3: 323.077 cents 323.077
4: 369.231 cents 369.231
5: 507.692 cents 507.692
6: 553.846 cents 553.846
7: 692.308 cents 692.308
8: 738.462 cents 738.462
9: 876.923 cents 876.923
10: 1015.385 cents 1015.385
11: 1061.538 cents 1061.538
12: 2/1 1200.000 octave

Another bit of fun from Low-End Productions, Inc.

Best,
jls

The tuning sounds wonderful, there are some beautiful vertical sonorities.

Could you render this with a different sound and maybe work on flow of the lines, suspensions and so on? It sounds like the lines are lurching about, and I'm having difficulty telling what is sudden changes in the sounds themselves (is it synthesized from short choir samples?) and what might be problems in the writing- the sharp attacks don't help.

Also, since you're using a modality of 26-equal, an obvious place to go would be to work in lots of septimal intervals...

-Cameron Bobro

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "jsmith9624@..." <jsmith9624@...> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I have created a folder called (for want of something more original)
> "jlsmith" in the group files. There you will find an mp3 of a very short
> exercise in 4-part harmony. Just testing some old college harmony
> skills, because RUST NEVER SLEEPS, man.
>
> "Te Deum Laudamus" is very loosely based upon a fragment of Anglican
> plainchant melody & harmonized by Your Humble Narrator. Just to be an
> irritant, I tuned it to my very own (I think) Soft Meantone:
>
> J.Smith soft meantone 12 of 52et
>
> 0: 1/1 0.000 unison, perfect prime
> 1: 46.154 cents 46.154
> 2: 184.615 cents 184.615
> 3: 323.077 cents 323.077
> 4: 369.231 cents 369.231
> 5: 507.692 cents 507.692
> 6: 553.846 cents 553.846
> 7: 692.308 cents 692.308
> 8: 738.462 cents 738.462
> 9: 876.923 cents 876.923
> 10: 1015.385 cents 1015.385
> 11: 1061.538 cents 1061.538
> 12: 2/1 1200.000 octave
>
> Another bit of fun from Low-End Productions, Inc.
>
>
> Best,
> jls
>

Hey Cameron (& all),

Thanks for the listen & comment. I did in fact, tweak the original
version of "Te Deum Laudamus" just a tad & the new setting is at
NotOnlyMusic.com. This is a better soundfont I think, with gentler
attacks and softer tone. As you asked about septimal intervals, I
rendered this version in an extended Ptolemy tuning:

12-tone extended septimal Ptolemy, jls
12
!
21/20
9/8
7/6
9/7
4/3
10/7
3/2
63/40
27/16
7/4
27/14
2/1

http://www.notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=786&p=4415#p4415
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Hope you enjoy,
jls

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "cameron" <misterbobro@...>
wrote:
>
> The tuning sounds wonderful, there are some beautiful vertical
sonorities.
>
> Could you render this with a different sound and maybe work on flow of
the lines, suspensions and so on? It sounds like the lines are lurching
about, and I'm having difficulty telling what is sudden changes in the
sounds themselves (is it synthesized from short choir samples?) and what
might be problems in the writing- the sharp attacks don't help.
>
> Also, since you're using a modality of 26-equal, an obvious place to
go would be to work in lots of septimal intervals...
>
> -Cameron Bobro

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