Re: Hypertonality?

"Jack Campin - bogus address" <bogus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Anyone ever encountered Hypertonality, or Hypotonality (as terms,
>>> not as hyperactive key changes in a piece :-).
>> Hypertonality means having quarter tone intervals, so there are 34
>> tones per octave, tuned in just intonation. This scale is derived from
>> generating a harmonic series on each successive pitch in a single
>> harmonic series taken from a chosen fundamental.
>
> That doesn't make any discernible sense.  Quartertones are incompatible
> with both 34 tones to the octave and with just intonation.
>
> I suspect you've been taking Wikipedia seriously.  Mistake.
>

And confusing Penderecki with Chris Rainier as well.

http://www.chrisrainier.poddle.info/wordpress/?page_id=9


>> Used by Penderecki in his 1960 masterwork "Threnody for the Victims
>> of Hiro****ma" -- about as difficult a piece of music as one could
>> ever encounter: written for 52 string players.
>
> I've got the score around somewhere and might go look for it
> tomorrow if I can be arsed.  It uses some exotic scoring but
> it isn't particularly difficult at all and has had quite a few
> performances by amateur string orchestras.  (The huge birdsong
> canon in Messiaen's "Chronochromie" is a lot harder).
>

Haven't looked at the Threnody score in years, but (IIRC) the only
somewhat 
difficult part is the metrically notated middle section.  The quarter tone

stuff is quite simple - but sonically very effective.

Tom K.