Lou Harrison

I have a non-commercial concert recording of Lou Harrison's music with no
cover or date, and I am curious about a wonderful tune on it.

Is there a Harrison fan who can name a tune? It is for gamelan and
choir, and it begins with a baritone soloist's charming introduction
about Virgil's writing.

Adam B. Silverman
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On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Jeff Welty wrote:
> I have located various 12 tone tunings (i.e. equal temparment, Valloti,
> etc.) and am curious how the tunings were arrived at. It strikes me
> that this is a problem that can be solve with traditional mathematical
> optimization techniques. Does anyone know of the existence of such
> software for a PC? If not I am tempted to put together some code to do
> it myself.

John Sankey and Johnny Reinhard have been working on this. They have
used this kind of technique to come up with a temperament optimized for
the sonatas of Scarlatti. Since they're both on the list, I'll let them
explain in more detail for themselves if they wish.

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On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, it was written:
> John Sankey and Johnny Reinhard have been working on this.

Oops; I meant John Sankey and Bill Sethares. Excuse the misattribution.

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