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RE: [tuning] Another example of COFT-grounded adaptive tuning

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>

6/5/2000 5:01:06 PM

John deLaubenfels 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.

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.

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