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Recollections of Yosemite (17​-​Limit Version)

from Acoustic Works Realized on Virtual Instruments by Scott William Perry

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This work draws inspiration from memories of time I spent as a child in the national parks found in California. I remain quite impressed with all the parks I was fortunate enough to visit, but Yosemite is absolutely outstanding in the variety of landscapes found there. Thus, this work is tied mostly to Yosemite.

In terms of aesthetic and music theory, it is indebted to the symphonic work of Jean Sibelius and Henry Cowell's book, “New Musical Resources.” The work can be broken down into five scenes. However, because the inspiration was drawn from memories, there is no specific landscape correlated to each scene.

Ideally this work would be intoned in three 12 note 17-Limit Just scales that are related, one to another, by transposition at the 3rd partial. The first and last sections are on a G fundamental. This G is the same G you would find in 12-Tone Equal Temperament. The second and fourth sections utilize the same set of tuning fractions but they are transposed to a D that is slightly sharp of 12 TET. The same set of of fractions is found in the middle scene but on an A that is still slightly more sharp than 12 TET.

For my fellow tuning and temperament obsessed friends, here are the fractions that are the basis of each of the three scales: 1/1, 17/16, 9/8, 7/6, 5/4, 4/3, 11/8, 3/2, 13/8, 27/16, 7/4, 15/8, 2/1.

While the work makes use of the orchestra's standard instrumentation, including percussion instruments that would normally be fixed to 12 TET, it is not a complete pipe dream to expect that this work may be performed by live instrumentalists some day. The fixed percussion can be played on MIDI percussion pads that trigger the sounds of the required instruments in the correct tunings.

It is also worth mentioning that this piece might work in 12TET. Both versions please my ear in different ways. May they also please your ears.

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from Acoustic Works Realized on Virtual Instruments, released March 6, 2020

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Scott William Perry Ojai, California

Scott Perry earned his PhD in music composition from UCSB in 2019. He holds a BA from UCSB (CCS), a MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a MA from UC Davis. His teachers include Beverly Grigsby, Jeremy Haladyna, Kurt Rohde, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Ulrich Krieger, Pablo Ortiz, Mika Pelo, David Rosenboom, Curtis Roads and Clarence Barlow. ... more

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