source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 09:50:12 -0800 Subject: Re: tempered tempos From: Daniel Wolf <106232.3266@compuserve.com> Of course it is Conlon Nancarrow - originally inspired by Henry Cowell's New Musical Resouces - who has pursued the possibilities of tempi with irrational relationships most thoroughly. If I recall correctly Study #33 has two voices in the relationship of the sq. rt. of two against two, and Study #40 is based on the relationship of e to pi.. Another study is a twelve voice canon and uses a whole number approximation of the the ratios of 12tet. His studies with accelerating and decelerating voices might be considered a special case of continuously variable tempi. Ron Kuivila's ''Canon Y'' (Lovely Records) is an extremely smart spin on Nancarrow's famous Study 21 (''Canon X''). Several works of David Feldman used continuously varying tempi and must be learned by the player with the use of a prerecorded tape or sound file, as the notation (timeace) would otherwise drag the player down. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:48 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00567; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:51:27 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00565 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA28095; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 09:51:24 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 09:51:24 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu