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This is a piece for woodwind quintet. There is a great deal of microtonal slides that might be challenging for the average wind instrumentalist.
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Microtonal Music by Prent Rodgers. Made with Csound.
I am a composer of music using Microtonal intonation systems, including the Harry Partch Tonality Diamond. These systems draw on Just Intonation, which is different from the normal 12-tone equal temperment that western music has been based on for the last 300+ years. Some of the tuning may sound "off" to modern ears, but if you listen, you will hear sounds that are unique in the world, with a whole world between the 1:1 and the 2:1 octave. The music is created using the tool Csound, which is a publicly available, freely distributed digital signal processing tool with the ability to specify exact tone, timbre, and other characteristics of individual tones with greater specificity than the MIDI standard. All the pieces on this site are built using sample-based instruments from the McGill University Master Sample Library.
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Genre
Classical • Chamber Music
Charts
#420 in subgenre Peak #2
Charts
Peak #57
Author
Prent Rodgers
Rights
2004
Uploaded
June 01, 2004
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MP3 6.2 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
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This piece is based on a progression of chords from the Partch tonality diamond: C minor D# minor G minor A# major D++ major F minor Ab major C minor They are located on the tonality diamond in such a way that there are some very interesting intervals between notes in one chord and the next. For example, C minor contains a minor third at 6:5 above C, and D# minor contains a fifth at 7:6 above C. Moving from the 6:5 to the 7:6 is a 35:36, which is a very small interval. Similar changes include intervals such as 80:81, 32:27, 112:121, and 120:121. The last is a nearly inaudibla pitch change. There is a lot of movement at very small intervals, leading to the final chord progression, which has all five instruments playing a glissando in different directions on the six notes of the full chords. The sound is lively and very much in the style of Darius Milhaud, whose woodwind quintet was one of my favorites to play in our college wind quintet. The instruments are flute, oboe, clarinet, french horn, and bassoon. There are a few very low notes beyond the range of the normal bassoon, but all the rest are in playable range. The piece was made using Csound and the McGill University Master Sample Library. For more details on the techniques used, see my web site under Liner Notes at http://prodgers13.home.comcast.net
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