Re: 13-limit JI
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 5:36 pm
This thesis by Jeff Snyder in 2010 is interesting on the subject of Ben Johnston's notation. See section 1.2.3, pages 19 through 25.
http://www.scattershot.org/full-dissertation.pdf
It confirms that the accidentals "7" and "19" are downward pitch alterations, while the other prime-numeral accidentals are upward.
This quote from a violinist was interesting.
http://www.scattershot.org/full-dissertation.pdf
It confirms that the accidentals "7" and "19" are downward pitch alterations, while the other prime-numeral accidentals are upward.
This quote from a violinist was interesting.
The demands of recording Ben Johnston's string quartets are astounding. We've been doing this for six years, and we still find it to be overwhelming... In essence, Ben's stuff is unperformable. He wrote for instruments and humans that don't exist yet ... a hybrid of acoustic strings with real-time electronic/digital feedback of some sort and people with brains the size of HumVees... In rehearsal, we use microtuners and contact mics to let us know where on the dial we're playing -- X number of cents above or below tempered 'in tune'. (This is after we have laboriously translated Ben's notation into tempered-speak values -- his scores and parts as offered by his publisher are only half ready to be of any use because they're not written in a language anybody understands.) But in performance, darting the eye down to the tuner and back up to the page isn't going to work.