Quarter-tone Piano Prelude #6

[JNozum]

I actually enjoyed this music! Yes, I can hear the classical nature of it. However, it's different. I can hear a new dimension of expression in your music.

From John Nozum, a fellow musician

[mewrth]

Brilliant piece :)

[ugoughiful]

Caro Signor DieselBodine, quanti anni hai? Qual'è il tuo vero nome? Dove vivi? Da quale ispiirazione hai deciso di comporre questa musica? Sper di avere presto tue notizie.

MGC

[dsouhsoigh]

Just went to my piano and played C and C# and it sounded reeeeeeally consonant

[MartinMouseBrave]

Please keep making more microtonal/quasi-classical pieces like this!

[DieselBodine]

@MartinMouseBrave ~ I hope to write more in the not-to-distant future.

[Pacifiesta]

i really dont know where to start, aurally. having just introduced myself to microtonal music not much of it has made sense to my tonal analytical mind. this was a real workout - trying to grasp at keycenters and tonal structures. and honestly a very entertaining piece. im interested at trying my hand in microtonality. how do you compose these? is there software that you are using?

[swooponthebass]

I agree with the guy a little farther below, these are all good but #6 and #2 are fantastic, I hope you're touring.

[megabertx]

I've done a lot of listening to a lot of different music, and I think this is one of the first microtonal pieces I've ever heard that actually sounds happy. Major props to you for accomplishing that.

[ValeraKojin]

очень было интересно слушать. и очень приятно. хотя простой человек воспримет это как фальшь. я бы и сам сыграть бы хотел. но не знаю гамм четвертитоновой музыки. Класс!!!!!!

[SSOzzy]

Hey very stimulating creative pieces. On some pounds the piano almost sounds glissando. Was everything played by a normal piano keyboard or was their any editing?

[butthemeatwasbad]

Do you have a way for me to download these? I think they're fantastic.

[evinism]

I'm rather in awe, just having read Musimathics, how you can find consonance in the quarter tone scale, and musically, it's an underserved artform. I can't wait to hear more of it.

[DrSkotomov]

I'm really enjoying these preludes. I like this one and Prelude #2 best so far. I want to see someone playing one of these pianos now...

And how do you write sheet music for quarter-tone music? Is it a variation on the usual staff or something different completely? Maybe I'm just too unimaginative right now to think of how it could work.

[JustTehJack]

@DrSkotomov demi sharps (raises by half a semitone), three quarter sharps (raises by a semitone and a half), demi flats (lowers by half a semitone), and three quarter flats (lowers by a semitone and a half) are used, as shown in the wikepedia article for "Modern Musical Symbols" under the subheading "Quater-tone accidentals."

wikipedia (dot) org (slash) wiki (slash) Modern _ musical _ symbols#Quarter-tone _ accidentals

[Adji87]

Really like this one mate, unique and interesting sounds.

[kage1369]

...after about the fourth prelude, it starts to get boring. Do you know why? Because the composer uses the same bigger principles in each one.

[niazi1985]

do you feel that in your head too.....

[ExVash]

This feels very Mozart Sonata-ish in areas, but quarter-tone.

[atb1248]

Best of your video so far. :D

Do you know if Mozart composed music with quarter-tone?

[lhbbstar34]

i dont think so. The tuning technology back then was not good enough for anyone to probably try that. quarter tone music is more prevalant in music that is not part of the Western tradition

[PaganWarDrummer]

Not literally. None of his pieces actually used "quarter tones," but a couple of his horn pieces took advantage of the horn's ability to sound ever so slightly out of tune, where the horn was actually playing quarter tones and other microtonal intervals.

[Rhonda9]

It's amazing. *****

[DieselBodine]

Thank-you, Rhonda.  Exploring sonorities again. 8-)

[ponhand]

scott! This is a blast!!!!! you feel and know the universe!

[DieselBodine]

Hello Laszlo! I'm just an explorer. 8-)

[GreenGenitals]

What genius this music is, where I'm from this is akin to your "Bach" of "Mozart,"

My uncle constructed an instrument much like this one, except it was made from Sorken bones, but none the less, this brings me back to those great times, those where the good ol days!

5 green monster stars!

[DieselBodine]

Thank-you, GreenG! I'm in awe of Bach and Mozart, the true Masters, but I'm glad you like the piece. 8-)

[fendermac]

I love your quarter tone piano pieces.They clear my mind and leave me up and at 'em.

[DieselBodine]

Thanks, Paul. I'm having a great time composing these pieces.

[RodrigusVI]

Nice song, its nice to see ppl composing quarter tone music, I will upload a piano song composed by me pretty soon :P I hope you can listen to it.

[DieselBodine]

Thanks for listening, RodrigusVI

[terminalmf]

Awesome, I love it!

[DieselBodine]

Thanks, terminalmf. 8-)

[CousinoMacul]

Eeerie.

[DieselBodine]

Canal.

[floydstinkyboy]

bodine goood morning! i am real glad spring is THERE, it sure is not here - i still have eleventeen feet of snow in the yard!

I am sending this to claylavl he makes similar sounding piano music!*****

[DieselBodine]

Good morning, Floyd. 11 feet of snow! It's good your house is up on stilts! We just have rain here today. Too early to start the garden, but not too early to make some plans. What garden-related intrigues lie ahead this year, I wonder.

[floydstinkyboy]

bodine master gardners up here have little greenhouses inside, with lights. they start the seeds early, so they have full size plants ready to go when the ground warms in may. I am too lazy for that. Usually I plant one big potatoe and get two little ones.

[BigPrairieDude]

light, happy, without a care. I like it. Thank you for sharing.

[DieselBodine]

You're welcome, BigPrairieDude. Thanks for listening!

[rozeboosje]

Indeed. It does sound spring-like @:-)

[DieselBodine]

Hello, Pino. Hey, you grew some hair on the "smiley face," or is that a hat? LOL & 8-)

[Griwhoolda]

I like all of your preludes, but I particulary love this one. It's so playful. I love :38-1:30. It sounds like a cross between French impressionism and Rossini (!!!) (If that makes any sense at all). :) You WILL release these on CD, or iTunes, or something like that, correct?

[DieselBodine]

Hello, Griwhoolda. I tried to write this piece to expand on the emotional potential beyond what many seem to view as the spooky character of quarter-tone music. My biggest challenge is to try to create a happy sounding quarter-tone piece. The quarter-tones in this regard may be used more as passing tones, and less as chordal pitches. The experiment continues.

[junka22]

sounds really weird because my ears aren't used to a tuning like this, but it's actually quite cool, feels like the music is descending somehow, trippy ;O. My only use of quarter-tones is in 1/4 bends that I like to do quite a bit on the guitar, I think it's a neat stylistic technique

[DieselBodine]

Hello junka22. Microtonal music, in this case quarter-tone music, can seem quite odd until you get used to hearing it. I'm trying to compose my pieces in as accessible a way as possible to try to introduce others to the potential in music beyond our 12-tone system. Glad you like it. 8-)

[DieselBodine]

Thanks, Coz-Girl. Be happy! Spring is here! 8-)