Wrong Note Music

I wrote a waltz based on the idea of wrong notes. It's a 12EDO work, so it's not microtonal. If anyone would like to hear, I am quite happy to send them a midi file. But (British microtonalists may laugh) a comedian by the name of Les Dawson was an expert at the comic qualities of wrong notes. Of course it goes without saying that wrong-note romanticism is exemplified by Berg and his violin concerto.

Mark G

On Monday 14 June 2004 08:04 am, Mark Gould wrote:
> I wrote a waltz based on the idea of wrong notes. It's a 12EDO work, so
> it's not microtonal. If anyone would like to hear, I am quite happy to
> send them a midi file. But (British microtonalists may laugh) a
> comedian by the name of Les Dawson was an expert at the comic qualities
> of wrong notes. Of course it goes without saying that wrong-note
> romanticism is exemplified by Berg and his violin concerto.

Yes!!! and just about the entire output of Prokofiev !!!

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From: "Mark Gould" <mark.gould@...>

> I wrote a waltz based on the idea of wrong notes. It's a 12EDO work, so
> it's not microtonal. If anyone would like to hear, I am quite happy to
> send them a midi file. But (British microtonalists may laugh) a
> comedian by the name of Les Dawson was an expert at the comic qualities
> of wrong notes. Of course it goes without saying that wrong-note
> romanticism is exemplified by Berg and his violin concerto.

I'm interested! I've written a 'wrong note waltz' or something similar. Too
bad I have only a couple MIDI files of old compositions and they're in
12-ET. I did retune one to 11-ET last night, and it sounded interesting (not
bad, just weird).

Try retuning the file to something non-12-equal. That's the only way I can
write microtonal music right now, write it in 12-equal and retune it with
Scala.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Mark Gould <mark.gould@a...>

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wrote:
> I wrote a waltz based on the idea of wrong notes. It's a 12EDO
work, so
> it's not microtonal. If anyone would like to hear, I am quite
happy to
> send them a midi file. But (British microtonalists may laugh) a
> comedian by the name of Les Dawson was an expert at the comic
qualities
> of wrong notes. Of course it goes without saying that wrong-note
> romanticism is exemplified by Berg and his violin concerto.
>
> Mark G

***Hi Mark,

With all due respect, I think it may be *your* ears that are "on
wrong..." Berg's Violin Concerto is a masterful use of an unwieldy
idiom, dodecaphony, but they all seem like the best possible notes
to me. I have no idea what you're hearing, but it sure is a
curiousity... :) Whatever it is certainly does *NOT* "go without
saying... (I've studied the concerto in some detail...)

Joseph Pehrson