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Aaron,

Catching up on listening, I've enjoyed your four recent pieces. The Canon is really dream-like to me (maybe it's the 'large hall' it's in), the wandering nature is quite fetching.

But the Winter Dance is a true gem, very typically you, but evocative of another time in another tuning world. You may very well become the John Bull of the microtonal world.

Clear evidence of the musical power of the tools we have right now. Damn you for making nice music on a harpsichord! :) :)

Cheers,
Jon

On Thursday 03 February 2005 12:33 pm, Jonathan M. Szanto wrote:
> Aaron,
>
> Catching up on listening, I've enjoyed your four recent pieces. The Canon
> is really dream-like to me (maybe it's the 'large hall' it's in), the
> wandering nature is quite fetching.

I did use a larger reverb for this. I thought is was appropriate, esp. given
the blurry rhythmic content, to make it 'dreamlike', which is the precise
word I would use.

>
> But the Winter Dance is a true gem, very typically you, but evocative of
> another time in another tuning world. You may very well become the John
> Bull of the microtonal world.

Wow!....blush. High praise I doubt I can live up to, but thanks!

> Clear evidence of the musical power of the tools we have right now. Damn
> you for making nice music on a harpsichord! :) :)

Ironically, I was arguing about the emotional power of the piano over the
harpsichord a while back in this group. Obviously, I like 'sichord enough to
write for it, it's just that I think I can listen to more hours of piano
music in one sitting than harpsichord. That may change, who knows.

I will say some tunings really are great for the harpsichord (the meantone
variety in particular), and 7-limit JI (even 11-limit) sound fine to me on
it. Other tunings (7-equal, etc.) sound downright disgusting on harpsichord
to me (unless it's maybe a lute or muted stop), whereas they work beautifully
on the piano, due to the inharmonicity of the latter.

Thanks for listening, Jon!

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