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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">Below are some of the microtonal pieces of Gene Ward Smith.

Chromosounds: In [[46edo]]. Forty-six is the number of human chromosomes, but more relevantly has many useful properties as a temperament.

Choraled: This string quartet movement keeps trying to turn itself into a nice simple chorale, but gets distracted by various confusions and complexities. The chorale has been choraled. The piece is in a 26-note scale in the [[hemifamity temperament]], which is the 5120/5103 planar 7-limit temperament. It is in a synchronized tetrad beating tuning, which is a good one for hemifamity.

http://www.archive.org/details/Choraled

Dreyfus: In the movie The Pink Panther Strikes Again, an insane Inspector Dreyfus escapes and terrorizes the world before accidentally disintegrating himself with his own death ray. As he slowly disappears, he plays the organ. This is my idea of music appropriate to such a condition; it is in the Octoid[72] scale of [[octoid temperament]], 72 notes out of [[224edo]]. To quote from the film, "What is the price of one piano compared to the terrible crime that's been committed here?"

http://www.archive.org/details/Dreyfus

Bodacious Breed: Symphonic music in the 2401/2400-planar [[breed temperament]], tuned to [[441edo]].

http://www.archive.org/details/BodaciousBreed

http://www.archive.org/details/RoughDiamond

Ostinato on a difference set: This is a severely mathematical exercise applying the 13-element perfect difference set to the 13-element 7-limit tonality diamond. The violin riffs on the difference set, and with the clarinet permutes through various interval relationships, including unisons.

Threnody for the Victims of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The tuning is 13-limit JI, or [[6079edo]] if you want to get technical

http://www.archive.org/details/ThrenodyForTheVictimsOfWolfgangAmadeusMozart

Rachmaninoff Plays Blackjack: This is in the 21-note [[Blackjack scale]] of [[miracle temperament]], which has attracted some notice of late. The tuning is [[175edo]], and the melody was stolen from Sergei, and then folded, spindled, and mutilated. The rest is my fault.

http://www.archive.org/details/RachmaninoffPlaysBlackjack

Kotekant: Kotekan is a type of Balinese Gamelan music involving fast interlocking parts. In this style there are two independent parts called polos and sangsih, each of which fills in the gaps of the other to form a complete rhythmic texture. This piece does something similar, only in [[72edo]].

http://www.archive.org/details/Kotekant

Music For Your Ears: If you exchange 3/2 with 5/3 and 7/4 with 10/7, leaving 2 and 5 fixed, the resulting involution map also interchanges 126/125 and 64/63. If 126/125 is tempered out on one side of the exchange and 64/63 on the other, a tempered but of music can be sent to another bit in another temperament. This piece, dating to 2002, moves from [[46edo]], which tempers out 126/125, to [[27edo]], which tempers out 64/63, and back again using this method.

http://www.archive.org/details/MusicForYourEars

Night on Porcupine Mountain: Mussorgky's Night on Bald Mountain isn't precisely found below; it has been "porcupinized" to a version in the [[porcupine temperament]], tuned to [[22edo]] instead of [[12edo]]. Porcupine is the rank two ("linear") temperament which tempers out the porcupine comma, 250/243, instead of the 81/80 of meantone, and which divides the fourth into three equal parts, which define the generator. These parts can be tuned to three minor whole tone steps of [[22edo]], which is what Modest and I have done here.

http://www.archive.org/details/NightOnPorcupineMountain

Pacem: Three twelve-note Fokker blocks can be constructed from 125/108 and 135/128, which give a scale which can be ordered according to the resulting val, which is &lt;12 19 27|. Below I have tuned the radiant Dona Nobis Pacem from Bach's Mass in b minor to one of these scales and orderings: 10/9 9/8 5/4 6/5 4/3 25/16 3/2 5/3 8/5 15/8 25/12 2. It comes out sounding very different!

<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Microtonal Music by Gene Ward Smith&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;Below are some of the microtonal pieces of Gene Ward Smith.&lt;br /&gt;

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Chromosounds: In &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/46edo"&gt;46edo&lt;/a&gt;. Forty-six is the number of human chromosomes, but more relevantly has many useful properties as a temperament.&lt;br /&gt;

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Choraled: This string quartet movement keeps trying to turn itself into a nice simple chorale, but gets distracted by various confusions and complexities. The chorale has been choraled. The piece is in a 26-note scale in the &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/hemifamity%20temperament"&gt;hemifamity temperament&lt;/a&gt;, which is the 5120/5103 planar 7-limit temperament. It is in a synchronized tetrad beating tuning, which is a good one for hemifamity.&lt;br /&gt;

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Dreyfus: In the movie The Pink Panther Strikes Again, an insane Inspector Dreyfus escapes and terrorizes the world before accidentally disintegrating himself with his own death ray. As he slowly disappears, he plays the organ. This is my idea of music appropriate to such a condition; it is in the Octoid[72] scale of &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/octoid%20temperament"&gt;octoid temperament&lt;/a&gt;, 72 notes out of &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/224edo"&gt;224edo&lt;/a&gt;. To quote from the film, &amp;quot;What is the price of one piano compared to the terrible crime that's been committed here?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;

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Bodacious Breed: Symphonic music in the 2401/2400-planar &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/breed%20temperament"&gt;breed temperament&lt;/a&gt;, tuned to &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/441edo"&gt;441edo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;

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Rough Diamond: Symphonic con brio using the Partch 13-limit tonality diamond tuned as a scale.&lt;br /&gt;

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Ostinato on a difference set: This is a severely mathematical exercise applying the 13-element perfect difference set to the 13-element 7-limit tonality diamond. The violin riffs on the difference set, and with the clarinet permutes through various interval relationships, including unisons.&lt;br /&gt;

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Threnody for the Victims of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The tuning is 13-limit JI, or &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/6079edo"&gt;6079edo&lt;/a&gt; if you want to get technical&lt;br /&gt;

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