17edo/Music

< 17edo

This is a collection of pieces in 17edo.

Modern renderings

Rick Astley

• Never Gonna Give You Up (1986 - 1987) - microtonal cover in 17edo by Bryan Deister (2022)

Johann Sebastian Bach

• "The Endlessly Rising Canon" from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (1747) – Baroque ensemble interpretation, rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2023)
• "Ricercar a 3" from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (1747) – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2024)
• "Contrapunctus 4" from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (1742–1749) – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2024)
• "Contrapunctus 11" from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (1742–1749) – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2024)

Nicolaus Bruhns

• Prelude in E Minor "The Great" – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2023)
• Prelude in E Minor "The Little" – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2024)

Toby Fox

• Bonetrousle (2015, via Undertale) - microtonal cover in 17edo by Bryan Deister (2023)

Gesualdo

• Gesualdo's Dolcissima mia vita in three comparative tunings after translation to english (starts at 10:05) — rendered by Chris Vaisvil, 2025

Scott Joplin

• Maple Leaf Rag (1899) – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2025)

Killstation

• Always Here, You and I (2015) - microtonal cover in 17edo by Bryan Deister (2026)

Christopher Larkin

• Cogwork Core (2025, via Hollow Knight: Silksong) - microtonal cover in 17edo by Bryan Deister (2025)

June McDoom, Kate Davis, and Cécile McLorin Salvant

• Take This Stone (2025) – 17-TET microtonal cover by Stephen weigel (2025) (also shows modified Halberstadt 17edo keyboard)

Mitski

• Liquid Smooth (2012) – microtonal cover in 17edo by Bryan Deister (2022)

Takahiro Obata

• Isabella’s Lullaby (2019, via The Promised Neverland) – microtonal cover in 17edo by Bryan Deister (2023)

Anna Sato and Laura Yokozawa

• Anarchy Rainbow (2022, via Splatoon) – microtonal cover in 17edo by Bryan Deister (2023)

Sheet Music Boss

• RUSH E but it's microtonal (17edo) and on Lumatone – microtonal cover in 17edo by Bryan Deister (2023)

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

• Fantasia Chromatica – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2025)

Masafumi Takada

• Danganronpa 2 (2012, via Twilight Syndrome) – microtonal cover in 17edo by Bryan Deister (2026)

20th century

Easley Blackwood

• Blackwood, 17-note Microtonal Etude, Op. 28: 7. Con moto (1980)
  • Acoustic version (arranged by Matthew Sheeran) (performed 2024)
  • Keyboard arrangement by Stephen Weigel (performed 2026)

Georg Hajdu (site)

• Heptadecatonic Drops (1992)
• Klangmoraste (1990)

Microtonalismo (site)

• Charles Loli 17edo^{[dead link]} music for guitar heptadecatonic (2001) and armony inductive microtonally (1993)
• Heptadecatonic Peruvian^{[clarification needed]}

21st century

Abnormality

• as the trees lose their leaves (2023)

Alefian

• Aquarius (2024)
• Fractal Eater (2024)

Nae Ayy

• go home mr muskrat (2022)

Christopher Bailey (site)

• Balladei (live), in 17edo, 29edo and 12edo (CD).(2004)
• Waltz (2006)
• Lost & Found Things #2 (studio) (live) (2013)

Jacob Barton

• Multiverse (2011)

Beheld

• Radiant vibe (2021)

benyamind

• Yandan Sin Imi Utra (2019)

CellularAutomaton

• Primocanes (2024)
• EuTIERRiA (2025) - tracks 2, 4, 6, 8 & 10

Bryan Deister

• Sugar Pumpkin Foxtrot (2024)
• Dark Matter (music box version) [17edo] (2025)
• 17edo improv (2025)
• March in 17edo (2026)
• 17edo improvisation (2026)
• 17edo groove (2026)
• 17edo jam (2026)

Diamond Doll

• Arm's Length (2020) – Spotify | YouTube | Bandcamp

E8 Heterotic

• Ennead Dance (2018)
• Ennead Groove (2018)
• Azure Prime (2019) – modal jazz
• CMYK Blast (2019)
• Cosmic Counterpoint (2019)
• Fantasia ex Machina (2019)
• Arboreal Ocean (2019)
• Neutral Aesthetic (2019) – electronic dance music
• Harvest Dance (2019)
• "Elements - Ice" from Elements (2020)
• Ethereal Stream (2020)
• Emptiness (2020) – ambient generative music

Francium

• peaceful walk on flowers (2022)
• Jam with Kam (2023)
• Wintery Dance (2024)
• "Eaglegirls" from The Decatonic Album (2024) – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube
• "yousyou" from XenRhythms (2024) – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube

Adam Freese

• Snowscape (2020)
• Stardrops (2021)
• The Peach Grove (2021)
• A Wish on the Pleiades (2021)
• Granddaughter of the Sun God (2021)
• Final Fantasy Prelude & Variations (2021)
• Sunriver (2021)
• Calm Before the Storm (2022)
• Sunshine (2023)
• Nocturne #1 (2023)
• Winter Leaves (2024)
• Sea of Pollen (2024) – mosh/3L 4s in 17edo tuning
• The Darkest Day (2024)
• Snowfall (2024)

Frédéric Gagné

• Chlorine Man (2021)
• Chlorine Man Remix (2022)

Andrew Heathwaite

• sing a blue (composed 2008, recorded 2010). This and the other pieces below by Andrew for cümbüş, steel tubes & voice.
• stringfinger it everybean (composed 2008, recorded 2010)
• cat feet belly (composed 2008, recorded 2010)

HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA

• Slippery Jimmy (2023)

Aaron Andrew Hunt

• Two-Part Invention in 17ET^{[dead link]}

Inthar

• Sarabande from the Locrian Suite (2020)

Intravoidance

• Fractal Drift (2025)

Ralph Jarzombek

• micro7 (late 2000's – early 2010's)

Aaron Krister Johnson (site)

• Etude in Neutral Sixths
• Lydian Dance/Phrygian Neutral Dance
• Insect Ballet
• Puhlops and Laugua's Big Adventure (2014)
• Adagio for Margo (2014)

Igliashon Jones

• A Calamitous Simultaneity in 17edo and 22edo
• First Impressions^{[dead link]}
• I Insist^{[dead link]}

Jutomi

• March of the Mushrooms (2020)

JUMBLE

• MILKY WAY! (2024)

Kailey the Alien

• I can't tell if you see me (2024)

Laboratory X

• somewhere to nowhere (2023)

M1k1_H2tsun2

• Neutral scale in 17edo(2024)

Mandrake

• A Wrong Felt Right (2022)

Marmalade Man

• 17 Tone Jam (2011)

Rick McGowan

• "Overture" to A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016)
• "Fairy Lullaby" from A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016)

Merct

• woozy (2025)

The Mercury Tree (site)

• Spidermilk (2019) – 11-piece prog album
  • "I Am A Husk" · "Vestments" · "Arc of an Ilk" · "I'll Pay" · "Interglacial" · "Superposition of Silhouettes" · "Kept Man" · "(Throw Up My) Hands" · "Disremembered" · "Brake for Genius" · "Tides of the Spine"
  • The album’s wiki page: Spidermilk
• Self Similar (2023) 9-piece prog album
  • "Grown Apart" (also uses 68edo and 34edo) · "Similar Self" (also uses 34edo) · "Dreamwalking" · "Recursed Images" · "Stay the Corpse" · "Binary" · "Self Similar" · "Dark Triad" · "After the Incident"

Herman Miller (site^{[dead link]})

• Transformation ^{[dead link]}

Moonshine The Yellow Toaster

• VNESHNIY MIR (2025)

MrMeowMeow

• I heard you like microtones (2025), synthwave music

Alex Ness

• Helas, pitié in 17edo with stretched octaves (2017)

Nick, The NRG

• Full Moon Light (2020)
• Lofi Hip Hop Beet (2021)
• Magnify (2024)
• Areumdawoyo (Beautiful) (2024)

No Clue Music

• The VOID INN (2024)

norokusi

• Piano Sonata n. 715 (2020) – YouTube | Bandcamp
• Piano Sonata n. 738 (2020) – YouTube | Bandcamp
• Piano Sonata n. 756 (2020)
• Moon Phases (2020)
• Piano Sonata n. 760 (2020)
• 2 piano pieces n. 589b (2020)
• Piano Sonata n. 718 (2020)
• Piano Sonata n. 747 (2020)
• Blue Starfish (2020)
• from Works for Microtonal Piano vol​.​1 (2020–2021)
  • "Impromptu n. 694" (YouTube | Bandcamp) · "The Lucky Variant" · "Decoration of South Wind" · "Prelude" · "Elegie" · "Intermezzo" · "Capriccio" · "Sailing" · "Cirrocumulus" · "Homecoming" · "Brightness of Snow"
• Duo for Piano and Electric Piano n. 769b (2020)
• Four Nocturnes for 17EDO Piano (2018-2019)
• 3 Pieces for Clavinet (2020)
• Suite No. 1 for fortepiano (2020) – YouTube · Bandcamp
• Fantasies for piano (2021)
• 5 Adagios for 17EDO Microtonal Harp (2021)
• Notturno for Strings (2021)
• 17 Preludes for 17EDO Piano (2021) YouTube · Bandcamp – 17-piece album
• Intermezzo No.1 (2021)
• Ballade No. 1 for 17EDO Piano (2021)
• Suite No. 3 for 17EDO Piano (2021)
• Medley for harpsichord, fortepiano, and electric piano (2021)
• Intermezzo No. 2 (2021)
• Three Piano Pieces (2021)
• Piano Sonata n.998 (2021)
• Intermezzo No. 3 (2022)
• Fantasy Sonata for 17EDO Piano (2022)
• Ballade No. 2 for 17EDO Piano (2022)
• Sonatine for 17EDO Piano (2022)
• Suite for Keyboard (17EDO) (2022)
• Song of the Night for 17EDO Harp (2022)
• Intermezzo No. 4 for 17EDO Piano (2022)
• Sonata for 17EDO Harp (2022)
• Metamorphosis (8 Pieces for 17EDO Piano) (2023)
• Ballade No. 3 for 17EDO Piano (2023)
• 5 Pieces for 17EDO Piano (2023)
• Turn Blue for 17EDO Piano (2023)
• Five Poems for 17EDO Piano (2023)
• Intermezzo No. 5 for 17EDO Piano (2023)
• Waltz replicas for 17EDO Piano (2023)
• Variations without a Theme for 17EDO Piano (2024)
• Lyric Pieces for Strings Book 3 (2024)
  • I. Pale Light
  • II. Hidden Half
  • III. Constellation
  • IV. Walk with
  • V. Captured Winds
  • VI. The Shape of Time

NullPointerException Music

• Edolian - 2057 (2020)
• Lastlands OST - Last Minutes Before the Event (2021)
• Onism (2021)
• 2i (2022)

Gregory Sanchez (site)

• No Love (2014)

Sevish

• "20 200 2000 20000", "Faded Orange Glow" and "Spuffled Gnorlacks", from Sean but not Heard (2012)
• Ancient Love (2022)

Jon Lyle Smith

• Etude no1 for 2 Pianos in 17 Equal Temperament^{[dead link]}
• Etude no2 for 2 Pianos in 17 Equal Temperament^{[dead link]}

Tapeworm Saga

• A quick quintet (2022)

Tristan Bay

• Anemones (2024)

Uncreative Name

• Summer (2024)

Chris Vaisvil

• Shanidar Cave (2006) – a piece in 17edo that features an electric 17edo guitar and what is essentially an electric tanpura which ends up making this a sort of fusion of middle eastern and Indian music in a sense
• The Pond (2009) – blog | video
• 17et Jazz (2010) – blog | MP3 – 60 x 60 winner
• Seventeen Selfless Notes (2010) – blog | MP3
• Graveyard (2010) – blog | MP3
• Klingon Opera Overture (2011) – blog | MP3
• 17 Reasons I Hate the Blues (2011) – blog | MP3
• Only in Disneyland (2011) – blog | MP3 – guitar solo
• Fish and a Grenade (2011) – blog | MP3 – parental advisory: language
• Seventeen Unsteady Hands (2011) – blog | video of performance
• Seventeen Years in the Sixties (2011) – blog | MP3
• CT Scan (2011) – blog | MP3
• Devil in the Deep Blue Sea (2011) – blog | MP3 – blues collaboration between The Two Regs (vocals / lyrics) and Norm Harris (percussion) and Chris Vaisvil (17 note per octave electric guitar and fretless bass)
• 17 Pink Tuxedos (2011) – blog | MP3
• On the Shores of the Dead Sea (2011) – blog | video
• For Brass and Voice Choirs in 17 edo (2011) – blog | MP3
• Walking, Again, the Mountain (2011) – blog | play – for choir and percussion in 17et–10et–17et ABA form.
• And I Became One With My Pet Fungi (2011) – blog | MP3
• Counterintuitive (2011) – blog | MP3 – guitar solo
• Flying Into O'Hare (2016) – blog | MP3
• DIY microtonal piano - 17 notes per octave (2026)

Stephen Weigel (site)

• Demanding Two Faces (xen-pop) (2016)
• Where were you at the Apocalypse? (xen-pop) (2016)

Syruph point (Syruph点)

• 17edo experiment 01 (2022)
• 2007,2011 (2022)
• MinMajMix craziest up to now (2023)
• Testify adaptation in 53 and 17edo (2023)
• Deng deng dong in 19,17 and 13edo (2023)

Randy Wells

• Methane Lakes on Titan (2023)

Daniel Wolf

• Prelude (PDF) (2004)

White_xianyu (白_弦余)

• A progression in 17edo & strange chords

Woyten

• The Bedoginning (2021)
• Stay Strong (2022)
• I'm a Lumatic (2022)
• Ephemeral Happiness (2024)

Xotla

• Petrichor Haze (2016)
• from Pico Metric (2019)
  • "Cretaceous Cosmos" – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube
  • "An Other" – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube
  • "Whorl Winds" – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube – 12edo–17edo polymicrotonal piece
• Xotla's Microtonal Funk & Blues Vol. 1 (2020) – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube – 8-piece album in 17edo
  • "Rive" · "Moment" · "Patina" · "Interlude" · "Fervour" · "Winnow" · "Jaunt" · "Meridian"
• Xotla's Microtonal Funk & Blues Vol. 2 (2020) – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube – 10-piece album in 17edo
  • "Sojourn" · "Chaparral" · "Veering" · "Sinking" · "Recoil" · "Lull" · "Restore" · "Vortices" · "Seethe" · "Escapade"
• from Lesser Groove (2020)
  • "Field of Mirrors" – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube
  • "Hidden Chamber" – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube
  • "Unrealities" – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube
  • "Rising Entities" – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube
• Seeds of Moonlight (2021) – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube – 14-piece album in 17edo
  • "Riptide Tangle" · "Fading Foxfire" · "Cans of Sunshine" · "As Seen in a Dream" · "Thousand Yard Staircase" · "Sipping Tea by The Sea" · "Photocopy a Photocopy" · "More Time to Waste" · "Bottle o' The Wisp" · "Metallic Lilypads" · "Moneygrubs" · "Backwatering" · "Losing Connection" · "Green Leaves Without Saying Goodbye"
• Journey Lands (2022)

YoVariable

• Waltz in B minor (2024)