Costa: "Cortège" in 22edo (quarter-tone microtonal)

Listen to this in a high--quality, improved version at https://microtonalharmonyproject.band... Version for 10 Horns and Bass +(Harp)    • Costa: "Cortege" - Brass Ensemble - (22-ed...   https://microtonalharmonyproject.band... Get the recording plus the pdf score at https://microtonalharmonyproject.band... ____________________________________ If you are a newbie to microtonal music: prepare your ears for new territory. All music I write is harmonic, meaning that the combinations of pitches relate in some way to the overtone series, from which harmonicity emanates. BUT... it takes a while for the ear to adapt, to understand and conform itself each tone system. So, do take your time, relax, use headphones (the bass sounds are esential!), let yourself dive into the sounds, enjoy strangeness and experience how it disappears with time: the ear needs practice! You will discover lots of sweetness when findind yourself comfortably inside the 22-notes-world. ------------------------------------------------------------------ This is my first work in 22 equal division of the octave, which took me a while to get into; I was finally convinced through listening to my colleague's Juhani Nuorvala wonderful Violin Sonata    • Nuorvala: Sonata for Violin and Keyboard (...   and performing his Prelude in Pajara (with Juhani)    • 'Prelude in Pajara' for Lumatone in 22edo   (with myself)    • Juhani Nuorvala: "Prelude in Pajara" — 22-...   22edo does a wonderful job of providing precise approximations of the overtone series, overall better than 24edo, particularly since the major chord 4:5:6 is much more in tune here, the minor third is quite sharp but it turns out to sound actually intelligible and quite pleasant; the ostinato in this piece uses it all the time. So 22 could be said to be THE quarter tone tuning system. The arrows in the notation stand for an edo-step of 54,5 cents, so a 1/4-tone alteration, F^ equals Gb, Ev equals D#, in my layout flats are lit blue, sharps are red and in-between-notes (such as Bb^=A#v) are green. I find interesting how arrows predominate visually in the score, actually also an advantage over 24 in my opinion, since the only notes carrying a flat or sharp signs are readily identifiable (green ones for me). "Cortège" is a slow, calm, meditative, plaintive piece, melody lines with repeating "sigh"-motives, a steadily moving bass in quarter-note rhythm, which sugested me some sort of a deliberate procession; the form could be described perhaps as a rondo with two themes (returning always in slightly varied form) and transition/development parts in between, especially the modulating and crescendo one before the end. On Lumatone Keyboard, using Reaper (DAW) with Pianoteq and Surge-XT, DaVinci-Resolve for Video. Errata: bar 5-6, 24-25: score says Bv in Soprano (approximating 11:8), I played B (approximating 45:32) bar 34, 55 - bass: Av (not Ab^) bar 63, 3rd quarter, F^ (not Fv)