More Equal Temp. vs. Just Int. MIDI files available

Hello again, fellow "tuning@eartha.mills.edu" subscribers and friends!

Back by popular demand, I have created more example MIDI files demonstrating
the difference between Equal Temperament and Just Intonation. I had been
meaning to write about it for some time, but the appended email from Ed
Dotson gave me the extra motivation I needed (Thanks, Ed!).

To hear the new examples (the first 3 steps are the same):

1) Go to my home page, "http://www.pacificnet.net/~nowitzky",
2) Go to the "Interests" section,
3) Select "here" in the sentence "Click here for an explanation",
4) Down near the bottom of the "Just Intonation" page, select the link
entitled "The" Dominant Seventh Chord (under "For more fun"),
5) Either read all my "blah blah blah" explanation, or if you're impatient,
skip right to the bottom and select one of the four example links--"The
first tuning", "The second tuning", "The third tuning", or "Equal temperament".

As always, I appreciate any comments/criticism/suggestions on my stuff. Be
well, and be "justly intoned"...

--Mark

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Appended email, from Ed Dotson:

At 11:21 PM 8/30/96 -0700, Ed Dotson wrote:
>Hey Mark: I listened to the files. The justly tuned seemed
>smoother... perhaps less vibrancy due to fewer beats. I'm a bbshopper who
>doesn't find the 7th flat(g)... maybe flat beautiful!!
>How did you justly tune promenji.mid. By manual calculation and pitch
>bending?
>--
>
>Ed Dotson
>ldotson@sprynet.com
>73757.1062@compuserve.com

P.S.: Ed, I'm using pitch bending, as you surmised. I wrote a "CAL"
("Cakewalk Application Language") program to automate most of the necessary
calculations. Thanks again for your email. --Mark
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| email: nowitzky@pacificnet.net |
| www: http://www.pacificnet.net/~nowitzky |
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Usually it is so that the way questions are formulated greatly influences
the outcome of an investigation (is enquete an English word?).

> 1. Do you consider yourself more of a theoretician or more of a musician?
> (I'll let each of you decide how to define those terms, except to say
> I'm refering to the sort of theory that involves such constructs as digits
> to the right of the decimal point, and logarithms.)

I think this is a doubtful formulation. The activities are very
different so it difficult to compare them quantitatively. It's like
asking "what do you like to do more, eating or sleeping?" Dunno, I like both.

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Message written at 9 Sep 1996 21:09:01 +0100
In-reply-to: <960906140000_71670.2576_HHB73-5@CompuServe.COM> (message from
Gary Morrison on Fri, 6 Sep 1996 07:04:28 -0700)

> Three questions:
> 1. Do you consider yourself more of a theoretician or more of a musician?
> (I'll let each of you decide how to define those terms, except to say
> I'm refering to the sort of theory that involves such constructs as digits
> to the right of the decimal point, and logarithms.)

Difficult. Certainly NOT a theoretician. Hardly a musician;
something of a composer,

> 2. Is the total play-time of music - in any tuning - that you've recorded,
> played live, or scored on paper, greater than 15 minutes? Again, I'll
> let you use your own judgement for what to count as "music", except to
> stipulate that it be intended for artistic expression. Freshman harmony
> exercises, for example, don't count.

Including juvenalia yes, but all recent works are scored in a
computer, and they only total 11m 40s, and there is 4 mins of the
current work in progress written. Total of 8mins performed in public.

> 3. Is the total play-time of such music, specifically in unusual tunings,
> greater than 15 minutes?

Of the 8 mins, 7mins are in 100ET and the remaining 1m work is on a
single note (333Hz -- no idea what that means for scale!)

==John

















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