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Retuning an old composition

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3/21/1999 6:22:36 PM

Over the weekend, I made a MIDI file of "The Star-Crystals of Telaras",
which I wrote back in 1985, and played around with different ways of
retuning it. I noticed that it has a lot of stacked fifths and fourths as
well as thirds, so I decided that this would be a good opportunity to try
schismic temperament. I eventually ended up using all but 5 of a series of
34 fifths, each tempered by 1/9 of a schisma. Parts of the retuned piece
are questionable, but in other cases this tuning made a noticeable
improvement. I even used the 225/224 "bridge" to bring in some
approximations to 7-limit intervals in a couple of places. Both versions
are up on my web page now for comparison.

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