The Music Page

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Notes on tuning:

• Porcupine temperament
• Diminished temperament
• Augmented temperament
• Superpelog tuning
• Zireen music {NEW}

MP3 samples

• My FTP site (48kbps mono).

MIDI files of my music

Note: if the pitches in the first few seconds of the MIDI files sound wrong, try playing this GM reset file first.

• Galatsia (1982 orchestral version) part 1, part 2 © 1979 (12-ET)
• The Elven Princess © 1983 (12-ET)
• The Dragons of Torennilan (piano solo) © 1984 (12-ET); John A. deLaubenfels' optimum fixed tuning version
• Kroçnardsklestj (an Olaetian dance) © 1988
  -->New retuned versions: 22-ET, Just intonation
• Xeyénike (an Olaetian song) © 1978
• Kaltan Nazenyaç (a General MIDI arrangement of a composition I originally wrote for the Moog synthesizer in an electronic music class) © 1986
• The Caves of Telaras © 1989 (12-ET)
• Zenrat Sedilatsykh © 1989
• Triskaidekaphobia (an exercise in 13-tone equal tuning) © 1998
• Etude in 16-tone equal tuning © 1998
• Etude in 20-tone equal tuning © 1999
• Etude in 26-tone equal tuning © 1998
• The Star-Crystals of Telaras © 1985 (12-ET); retuned to 1/9-schisma temperament (a series of 34 fifths, each tempered by 0.2 cents)
• Galticeran (The Black Caves) © 1986 (12-ET); retuned to 15-ET, 22-ET.
  Other retuned versions: 21-ET, 27-ET, and John A. deLaubenfels' most recent 7-limit adaptive just intonation version with stretched octaves.
  NEW: TOP augmented version (<<3, 0, 6, -7, 1, 14]] temperament)!
• Rriladéni Tharnien (© 1987): harp solo version (12-ET), expanded version (1/4-comma meantone), John A. deLaubenfels' 5-limit adaptive just intonation version.
• Mizarian Porcupine Overture (15-ET) © 1999
• Fue Marrgarrel (various tunings) © 1999
• This Way to the Egress (14-ET) © 2000
  -->New retuned version: superpelog[14]
• Transformation (17-ET) © 2000
• Daybreak on Slendro Mountain (5-ET) © 2000

Retuned versions of familiar music

• The Star-Spangled Banner in 22-note per octave equal tuning (22-ET).
• Deck the Halls in 19-note per octave equal tuning (19-ET).
• The beginning of Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra in 5-limit Just Intonation.
• The "Warped Canon" page -- retuned versions of Pachelbel's Canon in many tunings.
• Maurice Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte in 19-ET.
• The Pavane for a Warped Princess page: Ravel's Pavane in various tunings.
• Porcupines in the Moonlight: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata retuned to 15-ET. 1st movement, 2nd movement, 3rd movement

Works in progress

• Marsupial Jazz Ensemble © 1997 (19-ET). An incomplete MIDI arrangement of Computer Variation No. 1 (© 1987)
• Yeequitch and Keesha © 1999 (15-ET).
• It Can Be Done! © 2002 (11-ET).

Links

• Musical terms in Gjarrda with audio examples
• John Starrett's Microtonal Music Page