Mauro Giuliani study op. 100, No. 2 in 19 tone equal temperament

[kratanuva725]

Excellent! I applaud you for bring more wonderful microtonal music onto youtube.

[ericoschmitt]

thanks! im doing it. someday.. i dont got spare instruments right now.

im thinking of making a kalimba / array mbira in 19tet

[daveisgr81]

Is the reason for playing baroque period music using this temperament purely to emulate the way they approached harmony then? Harpsichords with different keys for Fsharp Gflat etc...

[cupakm]

@daveisgr81 I have to admit that I do not exactly know how did they approach harmony (J. Ph. Rameau's treatise on harmony was released in late baroque, 1722) and M. Giuliani is not a baroque period composer, but the answer is no, my intention was not to imitate such harpsichords. Anyway, as I don't know much about these, would be also nice task to examine.

[ericoschmitt]

and how did you adapt the ones you play?

do you play a F# in a G major scale (which sounds F#/Gb on 12tet) as an F# of 19tet? and thats all?

what about bachs bourree? it is in E minor and starts like this: E F# G F# E D#, but i think it would sound better playing the D# as a Eb instead.. can you play it on guitar??

at least the first 4 bars... thats a music i know well.. maybe you could try D# and Eb in the same video

finally, what intervals are the same in 12 and 19? fifths and what else?

[cupakm]

@ericoschmitt i usually make some sensible tones even more sensible (e.g. major 7th -> supermajor 7th, etc.), but not all of them.. only when i feel the need to let harmonic tension grow a bit more

for identifying the bach's bourree please use BWV numbering. i'm too lasy to investigate which bouree beginns with E F# G F# E D#

[ericoschmitt]

@cupakm oh well it is the most well known, probably typing bach bourree would be first video :P

the one jethro tull plays, and tenacious-D

anyway, it is BWV 996, lute suite n1, its E minor

[ericoschmitt]

@cupakm finally, is a regular luthier capable of re-fretting a guitar on 19? any too difficult calculations?

or maybe myself.. but i dont have specific tools for doing it.

[cupakm]

@ericoschmitt Yes, it's not a big problem. The fretboard has to be replaced by one fretted on 19. Difficult calculations are they not, you (or a regular luthier) need only one logarithmic function, or google for "exmi fret placement calculator" if you'd like to calculate stretch compensation also.

[ericoschmitt]

that actually sounds really nice! i play some untempered instruments like fretless bass and cello, im thinking on trying 19 TET, but starting on a new microtonal system without frets will be hard! ill try anyway.

where can i get some material to start with? musics for 19 TET, any?

[cupakm]

@ericoschmitt i'm afraid you'll have to transcribe / adapt / compose some music on your own. and agree - unfretted instrument would be pretty hard to handle, but if you're really musical with serious eartraining (which i do not possess), you'll get into it for sure

[SommaVesuvio]

Very pleasant indeed—thank you,

SV :)