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Microtonal Prokofiev

2:18 gotta be the best part

The number one job for composers of Western art music in the 20th and 21st centuries is to avoid writing music that sounds like the ensemble is tuning up. Mr. Johnston failed.

I come back to this every year or two, and it never fails to move me. Beautiful interpretation.

Simply Splendid LUV the abstract !! 💯🌹🥨🦞🌀🎃💎🎩

brilliant!

Woah

4:15 this section is so gooood

I wonder if you randomly tuned your violin strings and played a familiar tune on it with very approximate intonation and improvised for about 15 minutes if you would have something that approximately sounds like this painstaking effort? Just a question. There are probably examples of aleatory music that fit the bill. This is not really that difficult to listen to. The chords are often wonderfully misty and sweet-tart. A lot of what I've heard in these quartets is gentle and tuneful. Every moment seems to be a modulation in progress and it isn't always certain what direction the music will take; it has an amorphous quality...like a musical jelly fish

How about some Willie McBlind? ruclips.net/video/2ZCLvsr2WQo/видео.html

Wonderful! This somehow reminds me The Shawshank Redemption’s soundtrack

rare piece

It would interesting to play C Major, D Major, F and G Major etc. scales with the same instrument and really check out the idea of "key personalities". Can you make the second subject of a C Major sonata be in G Major, and then come back to C Major for the recapitulation? I guess equal temperament was accepted in time for Haydn and Mozart sonatas, concerti, chamber works and symphonies. But the Mozart Sonata 15 (or is it 16 now) is interesting: In C, the recapitulation starts in F. Did the piano for performance affect Mozart's choice of key schemes?

so good

Damn this slaps

this isnt music bruh

Oh this isn't the one I thought it was (Geometry). I wonder if it's just intonation tuning.

Great , keep it up!

Sounds like Radulescu mixed with F. Cerha

I was trying to find some genre like this and i've finally found it. It feels wrong and right at the same time. Like a human: really messy and alive. Beautiful

simply beautiful! 12:25 to the end sounds almost extraterrestial to me. what a genius!

thank you, dear universe, for ben johnston and those brave people who recorded this! i broke down in tears listening.

I've fallen down the rabbit hole of microtonal music... help.

Thank you all for your comments and thanks to JustIntonationMusic for posting this. Working on getting this CD re-released...somehow...

I don't believe that Johnston was the compositional genius that Ives certainly was. This quartet may utilize familiar themes as Ives was fond of doing, but Ives' music had the soul and spirit that identifies greatness; Johnston's opus here is all hard steel and dead emotion.

I think the pianist is actually Philip Bush

2:21 BACH motive.

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Terry Riley's Harp of New Albion is more relaxing, but it's 5-limit.

Robert Rich's Electric Ladder and Filaments (I like Scintilla ruclips.net/video/J2WoeT77xEQ/видео.html) are other more active albums, and maybe the next one. Favorite Robert Rich songs: Terraced Fields ruclips.net/video/wQAJuSHSMzA/видео.html, Coils ruclips.net/video/PLYFAXYOBiY/видео.html, Lapis, Lithosphere, beginning of Somnium, Harmonic Clouds ruclips.net/video/0Lf6KpIXbPg/видео.html, Underground (with Amoeba band), The Other Side of Twilight, Inner Landscapes Part 1 & 2. And there's always Steel Blue, Willie McBlind & 13 O'Clock Blues Band (Jon Catler). Nice instrumental Willie McBlind piece, "Chicken" ruclips.net/video/2ZCLvsr2WQo/видео.html "13 O'Clock Blues" is similar ruclips.net/video/mqfG1oAdUfQ/видео.html

0:42 is everything

Men, i see some shapes and colors

some chords make me chuckle

Pianoteq has a 'harmonic scale' temperament preset which is the same as this tuning. Playing (going up from the lowest C) C C G C E G Bb C D E F# G Ab Bb B C and then going up chromatically from there, basically goes through the harmonic series. Kind of limiting though if you're used to playing in 12TET, as most chords are way out of tune.

48 et (equal temperament with 48 equal steps to the octave) is a long way different to Harry Partch's 43 unequal steps to the octave. Partch & Ben Johnston share a liking for justly intoned intervals & harmony. Ben Johnston seems more successful in retuning his piano than Lou Harrison was in the latter's Piano Concerto. There seems to be a lot of scope in Julian Carrillo's idea of the 13th sound (overflowing 12 tones to the octave).

This is . . "WOW". .☆☆☆ :;;》🙏

no need for virtuosity here, just intonation explaining you that :D

Wowzer

I'm not ready for this piece. Differences smaller than a quarter-tone sound just like "dirty" intonation to my ears. Of course I could get accustomed to it, but isn't the whole idea of just intonation that its natural resonances would sound innately beautiful? I prefer alternatives like 31-et.

rip our lord and savior

RIP

not gonna lie. I find this profoundly beautiful.

I want to live the rest of my life in 1:43 and never leave.

Love those horn calls in just intonation.

Low Ratios = Spicyyyyyyyyy

I have a strange urge to get a shopping mall to play this on its music speakers. Just to see what would happen, that's all, but also to get people into Ben Jonston. Either way, great piece.

This can't be 19 limit because the F is the 21st harmonic

1:37 I guess all the inharmonicity of the piano is too much for such a high register of the overtone series.

My mind is blown.

What a wonderful composition really it's sounds amazing