name that tune!

Hi All,

As some of you have heard, I'm near to releasing a new
album of microtonal music which will be called EXOMUSICOLOGY

I've just uploaded a song to the group website, which didnt quite
make it onto the album. As a consequence, I never got around to
naming
it - so the piece is currently called "nameless.mp3". Its at:

/makemicromusic/files
/sethares/nameless.mp3

nameless.mp3 is a (simulated) guitar and flute duet
(along with assorted percussion)
played in a Just Intonation major scale.

So, would you like to help me name the song?

How about a naming contest? Here's the deal... you listen to
the piece and suggest an appropriate name or two.
After a week or three, our esteemed panel of judges
(that's my cat Fiji and myself) will pick a winning
name and presto, it will be so.

Everyone who enters the contest will receive a free copy
of EXOMUSICOLOGY (when its released in late August).
The winning entry will also receive an extra special
microtonal bonus...

--Bill Sethares

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "sethares" <sethares@e...> wrote:

> nameless.mp3 is a (simulated) guitar and flute duet
> (along with assorted percussion)
> played in a Just Intonation major scale.
>
> So, would you like to help me name the song?

You bet. The first thing that came to mind was

"Ain't that so?"

I noticed that fit nicely with the rhythmic motif, and then noticed that

"Name that tune"

also fir the rhythm. That's it for now. Very nice, by the way. Bill, are you using time quatntization?

John Starrett

Hi Bill!

It's obviously "Your Fingers Through My Hair".

Kalle

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "sethares" <sethares@e...> wrote:

> /makemicromusic/files
> /sethares/nameless.mp3
>
> nameless.mp3 is a (simulated) guitar and flute duet
> (along with assorted percussion)
> played in a Just Intonation major scale.

the 'just intonation major scale' is usually defined as 1/1 9/8 5/4
4/3 3/2 5/3 15/8 (2/1), but clearly you're doing something different
here. care to elaborate?

> So, would you like to help me name the song?

"The Timbuktu Slip"

-paul

Bill,

I'm just now uploading the file to the microtonal.org site, so in a few minutes it should be available at

http://www.microtonal.org/mp3/nameless.mp3

in case anyone is having trouble downloading from Yahoo.

The name? Oh, without a doubt, the tune must surely be "A Most Sassy Strut".

Cheers,
Jon

Thanks for the great suggestions for a name for
nameless.mp3! Keep them coming! Fiji is very excited.

Paul wrote:

>The 'just intonation major scale' is usually defined as 1/1 9/8 5/4
>4/3 3/2 5/3 15/8 (2/1), but clearly you're doing something different
>here. care to elaborate?

OK, fair enough. I guess its a kind of extended major JI scale, now
that we get right down to it. In nameless.mp3, the 12 notes of the
keyboard are mapped as follows:

cents: 0 19 205 267 386 498 583 702 766 884 969
1088
mapped to: C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A#
B
interval: 1.0 1.011 1.125 1.167 1.25 1.33 1.4 1.5 1.56 1.67 1.75
1.87
ratio: 1/1 x/x 9/8 7/6 5/4 4/3 7/5 3/2 11/7 5/3 7/4
15/8

As you can see, this includes all the ratios of the JI major scale,
along with a few others thrown in for good luck. The "guitar" had
reasonably prominent 7th partials, so I added in the 7's (7/6, 7/5,
7/4). Im not sure why the 11/7 is there (and I dont think it gets used
much), but I remember using the C# at about 20 cents in order to do
trills.

Does this scale have a name?

--Bill Sethares

Thanks for the great suggestions for a name for
nameless.mp3! Keep them coming! Fiji is very excited.

Paul wrote:

>The 'just intonation major scale' is usually defined as 1/1 9/8 5/4
>4/3 3/2 5/3 15/8 (2/1), but clearly you're doing something different
>here. care to elaborate?

OK, fair enough. I guess its a kind of extended major JI scale, now
that we get right down to it. In nameless.mp3, the 12 notes of the
keyboard are mapped as follows:

cents: 0 19 205 267 386 498 583 702 766 884 969
1088
mapped to: C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A#
B
interval: 1.0 1.011 1.125 1.167 1.25 1.33 1.4 1.5 1.56 1.67 1.75
1.87
ratio: 1/1 x/x 9/8 7/6 5/4 4/3 7/5 3/2 11/7 5/3 7/4
15/8

As you can see, this includes all the ratios of the JI major scale,
along with a few others thrown in for good luck. The "guitar" had
reasonably prominent 7th partials, so I added in the 7's (7/6, 7/5,
7/4). Im not sure why the 11/7 is there (and I dont think it gets used
much), but I remember using the C# at about 20 cents in order to do
trills.

Does this scale have a name?

--Bill Sethares

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "sethares" <sethares@e...> wrote:
> Thanks for the great suggestions for a name for
> nameless.mp3! Keep them coming! Fiji is very excited.

Ok, how about "Fiji is very excited"

Or, just "Fiji"

Fun piece!

kp