mystery organ

On this page...

http://roar.music.columbia.edu/~alessi/mp3_samples.html

...I don't see any info about this track...

http://roar.music.columbia.edu/~alessi/toccata_sopra.mp3

...but it's nice.

-Carl

>On this page...
>
>http://roar.music.columbia.edu/~alessi/mp3_samples.html
>
>...I don't see any info about this track...
>
>http://roar.music.columbia.edu/~alessi/toccata_sopra.mp3
>
>...but it's nice.

Listening to this, I think it's 12-tET. Can anyone confirm
or deny?

-Carl

From: "Carl Lumma" <ekin@...>

> >http://roar.music.columbia.edu/~alessi/toccata_sopra.mp3

> Listening to this, I think it's 12-tET. Can anyone confirm
> or deny?

It sounds like 12-tet fundamentals with natural harmonics (like an organ),
but those cluster chords at the beginning throw me off a little. To me it's
typical serialism, the kind popular in the mid-20th century, though
obviously not strict twelve-tone music like Schoenberg would've written.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Danny Wier" <dawiertx@s...> wrote:
> From: "Carl Lumma" <ekin@>
>
> > >http://roar.music.columbia.edu/~alessi/toccata_sopra.mp3
>
> > Listening to this, I think it's 12-tET. Can anyone confirm
> > or deny?
>
> It sounds like 12-tet fundamentals with natural harmonics (like an
organ),
> but those cluster chords at the beginning throw me off a little. To
me it's
> typical serialism, the kind popular in the mid-20th century, though
> obviously not strict twelve-tone music like Schoenberg would've
written.

The music sounds almost too much like Olivier Messiaen's organ music.
He used a lot of cluster chords and non-Schönbergian serial
techniques. His style is frequently "hommaged" in modern works for
organ.

Kalle