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Improvisation in 19 Tone Equal Temperament

Mike Battaglia

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Improvisation in 19 Tone Equal Temperament

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Mike Battaglia
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This is a short improvisation on my 19-equal guitar. 19-equal is basically the "older sibling" of 12-equal: it retains most of the harmonic resources of 12-equal, but also has new scales, chords, and sounds that are not like anything in 12-equal. It is also a relatively small division, which makes it easy to play on the guitar. 19 tone equal temperament is a "magic number" in the theory of tuning: it is the first equal division of the octave, after 12, that supports the "structure" of Western music: it has things like major and minor chords, the diatonic scale, and so on. To be precise, in modern tuning jargon, it is the smallest such equal division that supports "meantone temperament," and is almost exactly equal to the "1/3-comma meantone" that was proposed hundreds of years ago. Due to all this "magic," much Western music is automatically playable in 19-TET. The only new thing you need to learn is to keep your sharps and flats straight, because C# and Db are now different notes, such as in this picture (https://imgur.com/vHjet0j), which is annotated as in (https://imgur.com/iL1skyD). So for instance, if you are in key of C major, and you want to play the III chord (E), you'd play the "G#" as in E major. If you want to play the iv minor chord, you'd play the "Ab" as in F major. As long as you play all of these notes exactly the way they would be written, they will always sound right, due to the way the circle of fifths is structured. So if you're in C# minor, and you want to play the V chord - G# major - the third would be B#, and not C, because that's how you spell G# major (and they're different notes now!). In addition, there are many new melodic and harmonic resources available that sound totally different than anything in 12-TET, some of which I've tried to show: John Negri's 9 note scale, "Semaphore" temperament, etc, and a pretty decent approximation of the 7th harmonic. Hope you enjoy!