
Tuning Lab

Consonantics MIDI demo Consonantics MIDI demo
This is a MIDI demo only of a work for 2 cellos written in the near-Just-Intonation "Blackjack" scale
10/16/2004 Contemporary

Verklaerte Neunzehn (Tuning 5) Verklaerte Neunzehn (Tuning 5)
Joseph Pehrson's _Verklaerte Neunzehn_ in Tuning 5: "19-tET"
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Verklaerte Neunzehn (Tuning 4) Verklaerte Neunzehn (Tuning 4)
Joseph Pehrson's _Verklaerte Neunzehn_ in Tuning 4: "A 7-limit 19-tone just intonation scale"
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Verklaerte Neunzehn (Tuning 3) Verklaerte Neunzehn (Tuning 3)
Joseph Pehrson's _Verklaerte Neunzehn_ in Tuning 3: "19-tone scale derived from 1/4 comma meantone."
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Verklaerte Neunzehn (Tuning 2) Verklaerte Neunzehn (Tuning 2)
Joseph Pehrson's _Verklaerte Neunzehn_ in Tuning 2: "19 out of 31-tET."
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Verklaerte Neunzehn (Tuning 1) Verklaerte Neunzehn (Tuning 1)
Joseph Pehrson's _Verklaerte Neunzehn_ in Tuning 1: "A septimal interpretation of 19 out of 31 tones as revised by Manuel Op de Coul."
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #8-9: 0__388__702__970 cents Tetrad #8-9: 0__388__702__970 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents). Root position 7-odd-limit tetrad -- 4:5:6:7 or 1/1:5/4:3/2:7/4
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #8-9: 0__268__582__970 cents Tetrad #8-9: 0__268__582__970 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents). Utonal 7-odd-limit tetrad -- 60:70:84:105 or 1/1:7/6:7/5:7/4
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #6-7: 0__502__1002__1390 cents Tetrad #6-7: 0__502__1002__1390 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents. This has its fourths and major thirds tempered a bit wide, as in a very mild meantone.
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #6-7: 0__388__888__1390 cents Tetrad #6-7: 0__388__888__1390 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents). This, in jazz terminology is an add6, add9 (6/9) chord with no 5th, in typical jazz fashion.
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #5: 0__316__702__1018 cents Tetrad #5: 0__316__702__1018 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents. 10:12:15:18 or 1/1:6/5:3/2:9/5
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #36: 0__442__884__1326 Tetrad #36: 0__442__884__1326
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents). Stacks three 442-cent intervals, each of which approximates 7:9 from the high side, and each pair of which approximates 3:5 very closely.
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #34-35: 0__498__888__1282 cents Tetrad #34-35: 0__498__888__1282 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents). Augmented octave type chord, where the 3:4 is attached to either the low end or the high end of a stack of two 4:5s
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #34-35: 0__394__784__1282 cents Tetrad #34-35: 0__394__784__1282 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents). 3:4 attached to the low end of a stack of two 4:5s
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #33: 0__388__886__1274 cents Tetrad #33: 0__388__886__1274 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents). 12:15:20:25 or 1/1:5/4:5/3:25/12.
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #31-32: 0__388__776__1090 cents Tetrad #31-32: 0__388__776__1090 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch value in cents). JI major 7(#5) chord -- 16:20:25:30 or 1/1:5/4:25/16:15/8
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #31-32: 0__314__702__1090 cents Tetrad #31-32: 0__314__702__1090 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents). JI minor (maj7) chord -- 40:48:60:75 or 1/1:6/5:3/2:15/8
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #3-4: 0__388__702__886 cents Tetrad #3-4: 0__388__702__886 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents) -- JI added sixth -- 12:15:18:20 or 1/1:5/4:3/2:5/3.
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #3-4: 0__184__498__886 cents Tetrad #3-4: 0__184__498__886 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents). JI added sixth in second inversion -- 10:12:15:18 or 1/1:10/9:4/3:5/3
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds

Tetrad #2: 0__492__980__1472 cents Tetrad #2: 0__492__980__1472 cents
Paul Erlich tetrad (pitch values in cents). The "stack of fourths" chord.
11/29/2003 Experimental Sounds