Name: Gon-Tanz
Duration: 3 min 25 s
Channel: Hans Straub
Description: Free MP3 download! Licensing options are available for this track. Piano piece in 19-tone equal temperament, based on a scale derived from a series of 9 whole-tones.

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Piano piece in 19-tone equal temperament, based on a scale derived from a series of 9 whole-tones.

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hstraub

One-man project - home recording, slightly experimental, with a tendency to algorithmic and mathematical methods

One-man project. Home recording, piano, keyboards and harmonica. Microtonal music and free piano improvisations.

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Contemporary

Charts

Peak #115

Peak in subgenre #32

Author

Hans Straub

Rights

Hans Straub

Uploaded

January 17, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.1 MB • 128 kbps • 3:25

Story behind the song

The title is a pun - more precise, a spoonerism of "Ganzton" (whole-tone), which refers, of course, to the scale the composition is based on. The point that interested me here was the fact that whole-tone scales in 19edo do not have such a fearful symmetry as in 12edo, and I wondered whether a whole-tone piece in 19edo would have less of that notorious "amorphous" or "rootless" character that is so typical for many 12edo whole-tone pieces. This question (like many I have asked) is not clearly answered yet...
The concrete scale used was derived from a series of 9 whole-tones (3 units in 19-EDO). This gives the following scale: 0, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18. This scale also has the property that it contains every interval of 19EDO - except pure fourths and fifths.