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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==  

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 family|hemifamity temperament]], which is the 5120/5103 [[Planar Temperament|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

[[http://www.archive.org/download/Choraled/Genewardsmith-Choraled.mp3|play]]

==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 [[Ragismic microtemperaments|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==  

==Rough Diamond==  

==Ostinato on a difference set==  

==Trio in Orwell==  

A trio for clarinet, English horn and banjo in the [[Semicomma family|orwell temperament]], the 22&amp;31 rank two regular temperament. This is partly in the 9 note MOS of orwell, and partly explores farther, some of it becoming chromatic within the ambient tuning of the [[53edo|53 equal division]] of the octave.

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

[[http://www.archive.org/download/TrioInOrwell/TrioInOrwell.mp3|play]]

==Threnody for the Victims of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart==  

==Rachmaninoff Plays Blackjack==  

This is in the 21-note [[Blackjack scale]] of [[Gamelismic clan|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

[[http://www.archive.org/download/RachmaninoffPlaysBlackjack/rachman.mp3|play]]

==Kotekant==  

==Music For Your Ears==  

Mussorgky's Night on Bald Mountain isn't precisely found below; it has been "porcupinized" to a version in the [[Porcupine family|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

[[http://www.archive.org/download/NightOnPorcupineMountain/Genewardsmithmussorgsky-NightOnPorcupineMountain.mp3|play]]

==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!

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

[[http://www.archive.org/download/Pacem/Genewardsmithbach-Pacem.mp3|play]]

The name refers to [[Gamelismic clan|Rodan temperament]], the 26-note MOS of which is used for the scale. The tuning is [[87edo]]. I was tempted to switch tunings when Jacques Dudon posted his own 26-note tuning for Rodan, but equal temperaments are so convenient when using Scala, and 87 has the amazing property that it's exactly the same as the 13-limit Tenney-Euclidean pure-octaves ([[POTE tuning|POTE]]) tuning (well, the 8/7 generator is 0.00062 cents sharper: if you can comprehend that difference, my hat is off to you.)

==Trio for SoftSaturn, NebulaSing and TromBonehead==  

SoftSaturn, NebulaSing and TromBonehead are three soundfonts in one of Bree Gorton's collection of tiny but effective soundfonts called "Gort's DoubleDecker". They are the three voices in a Renaissance-style trio in the [[Hobbits|hobbit scale]] [[guanyin22|Guanyin(22)]], a 22-note scale in the rank three [[Orwellismic family|guanyin temperament]] tempering out 176/175 and 540/539, which is tuned to [[111edo|111et]]. This is ostensibly an 11-limit scale, or at least it's an 11-limit hobbit, but 111 can handle much higher limits and a lot of the scale chords and intervals have higher-limit interpretations; I confined myself to using a touch of the 13-limit.

http://www.archive.org/details/TrioForSoftsaturnNebulasingAndTrombonehead_297

[[http://www.archive.org/download/TrioForSoftsaturnNebulasingAndTrombonehead_297/trio-gorts.mp3|play]]</pre></div>

<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 &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Gene%20Ward%20Smith"&gt;Gene Ward Smith&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;

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="/Ragismic%20microtemperaments"&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;