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Pavane for a warped princess

🔗Herman Miller <hmiller@IO.COM>

2/27/2002 6:56:46 PM

I've done a few more retunings of Ravel's Pavane, and I'm putting together
a web page for them.

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/pavane.html

The harmonies in this piece are much more complicated than in the canon.
I'm using a tuning file to automatically convert 12 pitches, and then I
manually change two of the G#'s to Ab's. But the hard part is figuring out
what to do with the pitches that "wrap around".

. G#
. (A) E B F# C#
. C G D A (E)
. Eb Bb F (C)
. (Ab)

I've done a first pass at trying to figure out when to use the low A or the
high C and E. But I'm not sure there's a really good solution to this
problem.

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/pavane-j5-adj.mid

I probably won't do more than one or two of these "adjusted" versions
unless I can find a way to automate the process.

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