New Zireen music fragments

I've got a couple of new fragments of Zireen music on my web page (http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/zireen-music.html). The first is the beginning of a tune in TOP blackwood[10] (a TOP-tuned version of Easley Blackwood's decatonic scale), which abruptly cuts off after 30 seconds.

period 239.1786927 cents, generator 83.83059859 cents
wedgie: <<0, 5, 0, 8, 0, -14]]
map: [[5, 8, 12, 14], [0, 0, -1, 0]]

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/ex/pilina.mid

I also recorded a bit of improvisation with the father[8] scale, with much of the melodic material derived from the 5-note "anti-pentatonic" MOS, which I'm calling "yemet veriko".

period 1185.869125 cents, generator 447.3863410 cents
wedgie: <<1, -1, 3, -4, 2, 10]]
map: [[1, 2, 2, 4]], [0, -1, 1, -3]]

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/ex/yulung.mid

I did this by putting the notes of the Yemet Veriko scale on the white keys, and the extra three notes on black keys. So I had some degree of control over whether I was hitting one of the basic scale notes or a "chromatic" extra note. I added the harp part later to fill in some of the gaps and make it sound more like a deliberate composition. I don't often record improvisations, but I think this one turned out better than I was expecting.

(It never occurred to me when I was recording this last night that "father" temperament would be especially appropriate for Father's Day. It's just a nice coincidence!)

> I've got a couple of new fragments of Zireen music on my web page
> (http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/zireen-music.html).

Hi Herman,

Are any of these new since you put up this page?

-Carl

Carl Lumma wrote:
>>I've got a couple of new fragments of Zireen music on my web page >>(http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/zireen-music.html).
> > > Hi Herman,
> > Are any of these new since you put up this page?

I believe only the last two (Father and Blackwood) are new. The Lemba, Pajara, and Hanson examples were new when I first put the page up, and the Superpelog and Beep examples were older. I haven't updated any of the older examples yet.

(I don't know what the appropriate capitalization ought to be; it feels weird to capitalize Meantone, but using lowercase for ones like blackwood and hanson is just as strange.)

>>>I've got a couple of new fragments of Zireen music on my web page
>>>(http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/zireen-music.html).
>>
>> Hi Herman,
>>
>> Are any of these new since you put up this page?
>
>I believe only the last two (Father and Blackwood) are new. The
>Lemba, Pajara, and Hanson examples were new when I first put the
>page up, and the Superpelog and Beep examples were older. I
>haven't updated any of the older examples yet.

Thanks!

>(I don't know what the appropriate capitalization ought to be; it
>feels weird to capitalize Meantone, but using lowercase for ones
>like blackwood and hanson is just as strange.)

Suggest: lower-case all temperament names.

-Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Herman Miller <hmiller@I...> wrote:

> I believe only the last two (Father and Blackwood) are new. The Lemba,
> Pajara, and Hanson examples were new when I first put the page up, and
> the Superpelog and Beep examples were older. I haven't updated any of
> the older examples yet.

Some of them seem to stop rather than end, so what I'd suggest is
wrapping them up.

I put up an ogg version of Lemba here:

http://66.98.148.43/~xenharmo/coll.htm

I think I asked about this before, but I suppose I'd better check if
it is (still) OK, so consider this checking.

> (I don't know what the appropriate capitalization ought to be; it feels
> weird to capitalize Meantone, but using lowercase for ones like
> blackwood and hanson is just as strange.)

My approach, which I'm not claiming to be canonical, is to lower-case
the temperaments but upper-case the scales. Hence meantone is
miniscule, but Meantone[7] (diatonic) is majuscule.

Gene Ward Smith wrote:

> Some of them seem to stop rather than end, so what I'd suggest is
> wrapping them up.

Well, none of them are anywhere near finished. But at the rate I'm going it's going to be quite a long time before I get around to finishing any of them.

> I put up an ogg version of Lemba here:
> > http://66.98.148.43/~xenharmo/coll.htm

Most of the patches sound pretty good, but the dulcimer part is too loud and brighter than what it should be. You should try using softer mallets. :-) That's the problem with MIDI, of course; no two systems sound the same. At least you've got a nice string patch; none of the ones on this generic sound card I have are any good. (I suppose I should get a new one some day; I almost think I was better off with the AWE32, at least I could make SoundFonts for it.)

> I think I asked about this before, but I suppose I'd better check if
> it is (still) OK, so consider this checking.

Sure, I don't mind.