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Another example of COFT-grounded adaptive tuning

🔗John A. deLaubenfels <jadl@idcomm.com>

6/2/2000 3:05:57 PM

Thanks to everyone who listened to the latest Bach/Busoni tuning! I've
just added some Mozart (Sonata number 2 in F, K.280, sequenced by F
Raborn), and this time, for those whose ears are up to it (or "down" to
it, since the tuning is flatter!), I've included a 7-limit version, also
grounded to COFT. The usual 5-limit versions are also present, and no
doubt would be considered by many on this list to be more appropriate
for the piece!

http://www.idcomm.com/personal/jadl/

File: wamk280.zip.

JdL

🔗John A. deLaubenfels <jadl@idcomm.com>

6/5/2000 7:48:15 PM

[I wrote:]
>>Thanks to everyone who listened to the latest Bach/Busoni tuning!
>>I've just added some Mozart (Sonata number 2 in F, K.280, sequenced by
>>F >Raborn), and this time, for those whose ears are up to it (or
>>"down" to it, since the tuning is flatter!), I've included a 7-limit
>>version, also grounded to COFT. The usual 5-limit versions are also
>>present, and no doubt would be considered by many on this list to be
>>more appropriate for the piece!

>> http://www.idcomm.com/personal/jadl/

>>File: wamk280.zip.

[Paul Erlich:]
>I really liked wamk280cs5, even the dynamics (except at around 18:50
>and 20:15, where it sounds like there are some volume swells)! At
>around 5:03, it sounds like a sharp is too sharp, perhaps replaced by
>the next higher note's flat -- so perhaps a COFT of more than 12 notes
>>would be appropriate, though not necessarily more historically
>>accurate-sounding.

Not historically accurate? Paul, there's hope for you yet!

>By the way, your website says, "Project Retune: the retuning of
>single-voice MIDI files to adaptive Just Intonation (JI)." while in
>fact you've done very little in true adaptive JI and most of your work
>could be regarded as adaptive tuning, or perhaps adaptive quasi-JI.

You are right, and I will change my title forthwith.

>And aren't these multi-voice MIDI files? They do contain harmony, after
>all.

They're all piano, that's what I mean by single voice. Solo instrument.

JdL