source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:41:19 -0800 Subject: Mixing tunings (was Re: 12 + 19) From: alves@osiris.ac.hmc.edu (Bill Alves) About mixing tunings: there are instances in performance of Javanese gamelan where the "tumbuk" or note in common between the two tuning systems is used to "modulate" from one to the other. Also in the slendro tuning system there is the practice of "barang miring," where a female singer will briefly interpolate pitches outside the tuning for a very poignant effect. The Javanese describe this as using pelog pitches in slendro. But the most startling effect is the actual mixing of the two, which is only done in avant-garde pieces. The only one I've heard is Ingram Marshall's Woodstone, available on the old Bay Area New Gamelan (BANG) cassette. It modulates by gradually introducing new tones in place of others in the first tuning system. After several minutes in a pentatonic system, this sort of modulation can be, as I said, quite startling. Bill ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ Bill Alves email: alves@hmc.edu ^ ^ Harvey Mudd College URL: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/ ^ ^ 301 E. Twelfth St. (909)607-4170 (office) ^ ^ Claremont CA 91711 USA (909)621-8360 (fax) ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 01:28 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA09483; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:28:22 -0800 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:28:22 -0800 Message-Id: <9603120027.AA15933@delta1.deltanet.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu