Re: [tuning] Sterns' "At a Day Job"

Joseph Pehrson wrote,

> He uses a 22-tone set derived from overtones 10-20 and 14-28.

Thanks for the kind words Joe, I appreciate it. You might be
interested to know that this all started with that tuning,

25/14
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \
10/7--------------15/14
/|\ /|\
/ | \ / | \
19/14|11/7 / | \
/| | |\ / | \
/ | | | \ / | \
17/14| | |23/14 / | \
/| |,1/1.+---\---/----,3/2. \
/ |,'| /|\ 13/7 \ / ,' / \ `. \
8/7'+--+/-+-\+-+`12/7'----/---\----`9/7--------------27/14
| |19/10|11/10 | / \ |
| | / | \| | / \ |
| |/ | \ | / \ |
|17/10 | |\ | / \ |
| / ,7/5. | \ | / \ |
|/ ,' 13/10\|/ \|
8/5'-------------`6/5---------------9/5

as it sat once it was taken to a keyboard/tuning table and laid out
across a two octave span. So in other words, rather collapsing the
whole set (or two series) down to a single 22-tone octave, I took it
as a two octave repeating sequence 1/1 11/10 6/5 13/10 7/5 3/2 8/5
17/10 9/5 2/1 15/7 16/7 17/7 18/7 19/7 20/7 3/1 22/7 23/7 24/7 25/7
26/7 27/7 4/1, or:
10:11 . . . (etc.)
14:15 . . . 27:28
10:11 . . . 19:20

> This piece is also great listening for any American "Holiday,"
whether one is "into" that kind of thing or not...

Well things did start off with some cloudy programmatic rumblings that
were half homespun, cocksure independence...

as I was walkin'
I saw a sign there
and that sign said no tress passin'
but on the other side
it didn't say nothin'!

And half 'the dignity of labour under capital'...

as I stood at my bench
and the job hurried by -
while my hands did
their work,
a tear fell from my eye,
and another, and soon
though I couldn't say why,
I felt such a sorrow,
I wanted to die

However, once I got rolling on that little -- am I a third or am I a
fourth -- 10:13 "O beautiful" tattoo, I was off and running and there
was no looking back! So in the end only the title really hinted at any
of the original (such as they were) Brecht and Eisler like rumblings
of the initial pair of programmatic ideas... for better or worse,
homespun, cocksure independence won the day.

Yankee Doodle Danny