Georgian tuning

Here's what looks like a good exposition of Georgian tuning:

http://argosoft.com/kavkasia/album2/intro.htm

This says that Georgian music divides a fifth into four roughly equal
parts, leading to a division of a wide octave into seven parts. The
division of the fifth is approximately 1-10/9-11/9-4/3-3/2, but the
4/3 (fourth) is a little sharp. The 1-10/9-11/9-4/3 part would be near
to a 9:10:11:12 chord.

Here's what I am told is a very old and famous piece:

http://turovsky.org/music/jamthaba-iselta.mp3

More stuff to explore:

http://music.download.com/sretenye/3600-8169_32-100396180.html

Here's a page which has midi files, but sadly in 12edo. The mp3 may be
OK.

http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~ci4/georgien/songs/geomidi.htm

Gene,

Thanks for this information! I'll be checking them all out.

Regards,
Yahya

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Here's what looks like a good exposition of Georgian tuning:

http://argosoft.com/kavkasia/album2/intro.htm

This says that Georgian music divides a fifth into four roughly equal
parts, leading to a division of a wide octave into seven parts. The
division of the fifth is approximately 1-10/9-11/9-4/3-3/2, but the
4/3 (fourth) is a little sharp. The 1-10/9-11/9-4/3 part would be near
to a 9:10:11:12 chord.

Here's what I am told is a very old and famous piece:

http://turovsky.org/music/jamthaba-iselta.mp3

More stuff to explore:

http://music.download.com/sretenye/3600-8169_32-100396180.html

Here's a page which has midi files, but sadly in 12edo. The mp3 may be
OK.

http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~ci4/georgien/songs/geomidi.htm

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> Here's what looks like a good exposition of Georgian tuning:
>
> http://argosoft.com/kavkasia/album2/intro.htm

Thanks Gene for posting this -- a great site on one of my
favorite musical traditions.

Here is their 2nd album (the one with more traditional
tunings), with samples of every track...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005J6SO/

> This says that Georgian music divides a fifth into four roughly
> equal parts, leading to a division of a wide octave into seven
> parts. The division of the fifth is approximately
> 1-10/9-11/9-4/3-3/2, but the 4/3 (fourth) is a little sharp.
> The 1-10/9-11/9-4/3 part would be near to a 9:10:11:12 chord.

I'll have to listen and play with this a bit...

-He who is Not Here