Oops

[Sigh. Google is getting to me. Whoever keeps putting “Oops” in Google’s error messages is going to be first against the wall when the revolution comes.] Just discovered I’m doing BP bass clef wrong. I was making it like treble clef: the note that looks like standard C4 Middle C is BP C4. Wrong; in […]

Huh

Take a look at this bit of “Very Mock Morris”, reduced to two staves and with a fifth voice added to fill the chords better. Again, it’s in BP notation, so I’ve filled in the note names which aren’t what you’d expect in the bass clef: The intervals in the melody are wider than in […]

Very Mock Morris

Edit: I finally figured out how to notate BP key signatures without messing anything up. I finally get the point of the microabc “dumbacc:” command (though for various reasons I didn’t use it). PDF file link has been updated to a new version with the G lambda key signature, rendered more or less correctly! It’s […]

Bohlen-Pierce clarinet choir

(Edited 1 Jun 2012 to add graphic of written ranges.) Bohlen-Pierce clarinet ranges Steven Fox has a web page about Bohlen-Pierce clarinets, and has made some of these instruments for sale. He describes three sizes: Soprano, about the size of a regular B♭ soprano clarinet; tenor, in between the sizes of the regular alto and […]

Amen, amen

I went looking the other day for information on chordal harmony in Bohlen-Pierce tuning, and was surprised at how little I found. Basically this: http://ziaspace.com/NYU/BP-Scale_research.pdf. Walker presents a number of chord progressions, created “by ear”, which I find rather hard to understand. Her first two, for instance, start and end on C-F#-A# (using BP pitch names), […]