From: „Warren Burt“
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:08:28 +1100
Subject: Beethoven’s microtonal minimalist timbral composition
This is just a splicing piece, but a very clever one:
http://www.therestisnoise.com/2012/02/eroica-eroica.html
It’s a chronological splicing together of the first 2 chords from
Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony from the 1920s to the present. What you
hear are amazing differences in tuning, timbre and envelope. It’s
only about 3 minutes long, but it’s a real ear-opener. For music
educators, I think this would be a gold-mine, for a number of purposes
– history of intonation, examples of changing balances in additive
synthesis (with the orchestra as additive synthesizer and the
conductor as balancer of the partials), examples of envelope shaping,
etc.
Cheers,
Warren
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