New music for Woodwind Quintet

I've uploaded a new song to my Soundclick site at http://www.soundclick.com/PrentRodgers .

This is the third piece for Woodwind Quintet in a series. This one uses the tonality diamond to the 13 limit, which introduces a nice modulation from E 6/5 subminor to E 16/13 major. It's almost a cadence.

Here's the story behind the song:

Candland Mountain is a piece for woodwind quintet, that is flute, oboe, clarinet, french horn, and bassoon. The tonality is based on three otononalities from the Partch Tonality Diamond. The piece starts on a transition from E 6/5 subminor to E 16/13 major. Those two keys predominate throughout. The primary thematic idea is making the listener relatively comfortable in one key before moving to the next, which is often far away on the diamond. That can be a tall order, since the otonality has some very challenging notes.

The order of keys is as follows:

E 6/5 subminor
E 16/13 major
B 24/13 subminor
C 1/1 major
G 3/2 subminor
A 8/5 major

The relationship between the major and the subminor that follows is 3/2, and they both use the same otonality. For example, C 1/1 is a major scale consisting of C 1/1, D 9/8, E 5/4, F 11/8, G 3/2, A 13/8, B 7/4, and B 15/8. G 3/2 subminor starts on the same G 3/2 and goes up from there, using the same notes, with a different bass and mode. The same relationship exists between the A 8/5 major and the E 6/5 subminor, and between the E 16/13 major and the B 24/13 subminor. So we really only have three different keys. But the notes in each key are microtonally different in many ways.

The structure of the piece is kind of an A, B, C, D, C, B, A design, with a progression towards the middle, and then more a less a retracing of the steps back towards the end. There are short 1/8 note pauses between each section, but they often are so short that you can miss them.

Candland Mountain was named for one of the original settlers in Utah, who had the mountain and a spring named after him. The mountain was where he summer fed the sheep, and the lower elevation spring is where he kept them in the winter. This is the third piece for Woodwind Quintet based on themes from the Wasatch range near the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
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Prent Rodgers
Mercer Island, WA

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Prent-

Finally got to listen, and Bravo! This was just great, and your music remains
instantly recognizable as 'so you'.

Either your algorithms are becoming more human/sensitive, or you are
hand-altering more, it seems. Or you had a lucky random run, because the
development of these textures was *so* organic.

Cheers,
Aaron.

On Saturday 01 January 2005 02:44 pm, Prent Rodgers wrote:
> I've uploaded a new song to my Soundclick site at
> http://www.soundclick.com/PrentRodgers .

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.dividebypi.com