2024-08-19

Prelude 'n' Fugue "New Orleans"



A Prelude & Fugue for two harpischords, inspired to the New Orleans blues style. Tuning is Gallimard's Meantone, a circulating 12-tone almost-well temperament: 87 190 293 383 505 585 695 783 886 1003 1083 1200

A score of this piece is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YRfJTbm0rtzY3c3HVmsEtPa0cg1Hvd70/view?usp=drive_link
 

2024-08-10

Bach - Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus 14, Completed [Harpischord, Rameau TO]



A completion of Bach's Contrapunctus 14 from the Art of Fugue, based on very simple contrapuntal principles. (Jump directly to the completion: https://youtu.be/a7U81yq13WA?t=433 ). Arranged for harpischord (soundfont is Harpischord Zell), tuned into Rameau's Tempérament Ordinaire, a circulating temperament generated by 7 meantone fifths (as large as 696.578 ¢), 3 pythagorean fifths (as large as 701.955 ¢) and 2 sharp fifths (as large as 709.045 ¢), then rounded to integer values. The cent figures of the tuning (with C set to 0) are: 0 ¢ 87 ¢ 193 ¢ 298 ¢ 386 ¢ 503 ¢ 585 ¢ 697 ¢ 789 ¢ 890 ¢ 1007 ¢ 1083 ¢ • More versions of this piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXA-QwMzYB0&list=PLC6ZSKWKnVz2BVaWuoeaaqAPsWRuAgWim • More Bach's pieces completed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqVFA5In008&list=PLC6ZSKWKnVz0-n44FHBVZiGbn2AGGEGoJ • More pieces tuned into Rameau Tempérament Ordinaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Zd36vuurk&list=PLC6ZSKWKnVz14XaYz6irvBdfXEQyJMDrE