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== One idea I had.... ==
== 19-edo ==
There are a lot of pop songs titled "Magic".


For instance, "Magic" by the Cars, "Magic" by Pilot, etc. Or even just with the word in their title ("Strange Magic", "Do You Believe In Magic?"), etc.
I'd argue that 99.9% of all mainstream music can be adapted into 19-edo without any effort whatsoever. The article mentions only 31-edo, but really 31-edo is to 19-edo as 19-edo is to 12-edo.


I'd like to see at least one of these pieces redone in magic temperament. Not just in an edo that allows magic, but actually in magic temperament, meaning chord progressions would more often modulate by major thirds than by fifths. This would necessitate a lot of changes in the chords and melody, but I'm sure there'd be a way to do this while maintaining the overall feel of the original piece.
That said, I'm not even sure if pieces adapted into 19-edo even vaguely qualify as xenharmonic, although, the same ought to apply to "standard" pieces faithfully adapted into 31-edo, for the same reasons.


Actually, "Strange Magic" would be a great one to do. The cover could be called "StrangeR Magic".
I have a fairly extensive collection of recordings of other people's music I recorded in 19-edo, going back decades - none of it particularly good nor interesting, in my opinion.


- '''MasonGreen1''' April 04, 2016, 08:11:45 PM UTC-0700
--[[User:Bozu|Bozu]] ([[User talk:Bozu|talk]]) 19:51, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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There might be some copyright issues with recording covers, though; although I'm not sure how much of a problem that'd be if you weren't making money off the cover. (Alternatively, it might be possible to consider it a parody rather than a cover, and parodies are protected under fair use IIRC). Legal issues are not my strong suit, unfortunately.


- '''MasonGreen1''' April 04, 2016, 08:13:22 PM UTC-0700
== Bohlen-Pierce ==
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I'd love to hear what something like Bouree would sound like in BP!  I can imagine it'd be a heck of a lot of effort to make any sense of something with counterpoint in a system without octaves, though.
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