A new working project and my own 43-tone JI scale

Well it's been a while since I posted something; I've been fighting writer's block lately. It's the tune titled "Loving County" in my file folder:

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/dawier/

I got two minutes so far and want more, or I might just end it there. I used the free FluidR3 GM soundfont and recorded it quick-and-dirty with Timidity++ in OGG format. Loving County, by the way, is located in West Texas and is the least populous county in the United States: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/national/25loving.html

The gimmick: I'm using 72-equal for the strings and 12-equal for winds and piano, and only bass instruments are used: bass flute, Heckelphone (or bass oboe), bass clarinet, contrabassoon, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba, piano (preferably a B�sendorfer Imperial Grand), timpani, bass drum, cellos and contrabasses. It's my first completely atonal composition, and towards the end of what I got so far, I use a tone row.

Also, not to second guess Mr. Partch or anything, but I'm finding myself using my own 43-tone scale. It's a combination of his 29-tone 11-limit diamond which was mentioned here just earlier, and a rationalized 41-tone "studloco" subset of Miracle. Since all the ratios of the former except 11/10 and 20/11 are found in the latter, this produces 43-tones. Only six of the ratios are different than Partch's.

The Scala file would be (and my apologies for being redundant if this scale already exists):

29-tone 11-limit diamond plus 41-tone rationalized Miracle
43
!
64/63
28/27
21/20
16/15
12/11
11/10
10/9
9/8
8/7
7/6
32/27
6/5
11/9
5/4
14/11
9/7
21/16
4/3
15/11
11/8
7/5
10/7
16/11
22/15
3/2
32/21
14/9
11/7
8/5
18/11
5/3
27/16
12/7
7/4
16/9
9/5
20/11
11/6
15/8
40/21
27/14
63/32
2/1

~D.

Danny! I like this new piece very much! It's so eerie and mystical!

Oz.

On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Danny Wier wrote:

> Well it's been a while since I posted something; I've been fighting
> writer's block lately. It's the tune titled "Loving County" in my file
> folder:
>
> http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/dawier/
>
> I got two minutes so far and want more, or I might just end it
> there. I
> used the free FluidR3 GM soundfont and recorded it quick-and-dirty
> with
> Timidity++ in OGG format. Loving County, by the way, is located in
> West
> Texas and is the least populous county in the United States:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/national/25loving.html
>
> The gimmick: I'm using 72-equal for the strings and 12-equal for winds
> and piano, and only bass instruments are used: bass flute, Heckelphone
> (or bass oboe), bass clarinet, contrabassoon, bass trombone,
> euphonium,
> tuba, piano (preferably a Bösendorfer Imperial Grand), timpani, bass
> drum, cellos and contrabasses. It's my first completely atonal
> composition, and towards the end of what I got so far, I use a tone
> row.
>
> Also, not to second guess Mr. Partch or anything, but I'm finding
> myself
> using my own 43-tone scale. It's a combination of his 29-tone 11-limit
> diamond which was mentioned here just earlier, and a rationalized
> 41-tone "studloco" subset of Miracle. Since all the ratios of the
> former
> except 11/10 and 20/11 are found in the latter, this produces 43-
> tones.
> Only six of the ratios are different than Partch's.
>
> The Scala file would be (and my apologies for being redundant if this
> scale already exists):
>
> 29-tone 11-limit diamond plus 41-tone rationalized Miracle
> 43
> !
> 64/63
> 28/27
> 21/20
> 16/15
> 12/11
> 11/10
> 10/9
> 9/8
> 8/7
> 7/6
> 32/27
> 6/5
> 11/9
> 5/4
> 14/11
> 9/7
> 21/16
> 4/3
> 15/11
> 11/8
> 7/5
> 10/7
> 16/11
> 22/15
> 3/2
> 32/21
> 14/9
> 11/7
> 8/5
> 18/11
> 5/3
> 27/16
> 12/7
> 7/4
> 16/9
> 9/5
> 20/11
> 11/6
> 15/8
> 40/21
> 27/14
> 63/32
> 2/1
>
> ~D.
>
> ------

Ozan Yarman wrote:
> Danny! I like this new piece very much! It's so eerie and mystical!
>
> Oz.
> Why thank you, and salams again. I'd describe it as "eerie", except I do have horror movies more in mind than mysticism. Or the feeling you're in the middle of nowhere. I still have a LOT of work to do on this.

I play bass, and I have an affinity for lower frequencies, so I had to write something using all bass instruments. One favorite of mine is the Heckelphone, an improvement on the bass oboe with a wider bore and a more bassoon-like quality. Except on this sound file, you're hearing an out-of-range English horn since I only have that sound to work with.

And about your chords:

> 242 460 | 20:23:30
>
> 355 347 | 22:27:33

I'm with Carl on these; just call them "20:23:30 subminor triad" and "22:27:33 neutral triad". I recognized 27:22 as al-Farabi's neutral third, so maybe it cold be call an "al-Farabi neutral triad".

~D.

> On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Danny Wier wrote:
>
> >> Well it's been a while since I posted something; I've been fighting
>> writer's block lately. It's the tune titled "Loving County" in my file
>> folder:
>>
>> http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/dawier/
>