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Pehrson 19-tone piece

🔗Joseph Pehrson <jpehrson@rcn.com>

12/7/2003 4:03:03 PM

_Verklaerte Neunzehn_ is now on my website:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/5/josephpehrsonmusic.htm

Actually, I've just had the good news that this piece will be played
on a concert Dec. 17 in Moscow with another electronic piece by
Milton Babbitt (!) [In Russia they think that all American composers
are in the same league... :) ]

Information on the various tuning possibilities I tried for this
piece is on Tuning Lab:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/5/tuninglabmusic.htm

Essentially, I've learned quite a bit in the 4 odd (and I must
say "prime") years I have spent on this list.

One of these things is that the particular tuning I chose for
Verklaerte Neunzehn (a 19-tone scale derived from 7-limit JI) could
have just as easily been tuned in 19-tET and it wouldn't have made
any discernible difference.

In fact, none of the different tunings for _Verklaerte Neunzehn_
really are all that distinct on the Tuning Lab page and any of them
would have "worked..."

That's what people were telling me on this list 4 years ago, but I
didn't believe it then... :)

So, apparently, I've learned something, since it's pretty clear now...

Joseph Pehrson