{"id":1322,"date":"2016-10-22T20:07:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2016-10-22T20:07:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:07:24","slug":"revelation-tuning-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/2016\/10\/22\/revelation-tuning-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Revelation Tuning Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Revelation tuning&#8221; is the tuning system Michael Harrison used for his album <em>Revelation:\u00a0Music in Pure Intonation<\/em>. \u00a0He describes it at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelharrison.com\/Pure_intonation.aspx\">Music In Pure Intonation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a chromatic scale, and he picked the specific frequencies to produce perfect fifths (in a 3:2 ratio) and perfect minor sevenths (in a 7:4 ratio.) \u00a0If I&#8217;ve calculated this correctly, these are the corresponding microtonal adjustments (to a precision of one cent):\u00a0F 0, F# -27, G +4, G# -123, A +8, Bb -29, B +12, C +2, C# -125, D +6, Eb -31, E +10.<\/p>\n<p>With that in place, a score written this way:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/misc\/RevelationTuningDemo\/RevelationTuningDemo-3-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/misc\/RevelationTuningDemo\/RevelationTuningDemo-3-1.png\" width=\"415\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sounds like this:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1322-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/misc\/RevelationTuningDemo\/RevelationTuningDemo.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/misc\/RevelationTuningDemo\/RevelationTuningDemo.mp3\">http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/misc\/RevelationTuningDemo\/RevelationTuningDemo.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Revelation tuning&#8221; is the tuning system Michael Harrison used for his album Revelation:\u00a0Music in Pure Intonation. \u00a0He describes it at\u00a0Music In Pure Intonation. It&#8217;s not a chromatic scale, and he picked the specific frequencies to produce perfect fifths (in a 3:2 ratio) and perfect minor sevenths (in a 7:4 ratio.) \u00a0If I&#8217;ve calculated this correctly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[246,87,247,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}