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Polyphony for 12 - Dream of the Dance

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Polyphony for 12 - Dream of the Dance
is a 2nd version of the same work as Polyphony for 12 - Ballad. The differences are in the tunings used, some changes in instrumentation, and in significant differences in how tempo is handled. Where the Ballad version is countrapuntal and vocal, Dream of the Dance is more atmospheric in character. In Dream of the Dance, the music oscillates between extremely fast tempos, which cause the music to take on an almost cocktail chatter kind of effect, and extremely slow tempos, where the melodic and harmonic motion is essentially suspended. Dream also has a more obviously microtonal character, due to the inclusion of two 14 tone per octave scales, and a greater emphasis on SuperPyth [12] of 22 EDO.
The instrumentation for Dream of the Dance is 3 Pianos (each a different model and with a different tuning, unlike the Ballad), 2 Marimbas, 1 Xylophone, 2 Celesta, 2 Tubular Bells, Steel Drum, and Hand Pan.

TUNINGS:
In the Dream of the Dance version of Polyphony for 12 the microtonal scales or tunings used are all obtained from the Scala scale library, as follows:
12-22h, Paul Erlich's hexachordal 12-tone scale derived from 22 EDO is used in only one of the pianos.
12-22, Paul Erlich's 12-tone scale better known among microtonalists as SuperPyth [12], is used both marimbas, the steel pan, and one of the tubular bells.
12-19, a 12-tone scale derived by Joel Mandelbaum in his PhD thesis from 19 EDO, is used in the xylophone, the hand pan, and one of the pianos.
12-17, a 12-tone scale derived from 17 EDO is used in one of the tubular bells voices.
14-26, a double, interlaced set of diatonic scales derived by Paul Erlich from 26 EDO is used in one of the pianos.
14-19, a 14 note subset of 19 EDO, also found in Mandelbaum's thesis, is used in both Celesta.
For more detailed information on these scales the reader is referred to the free Scala scales database, which is available on the WWW at www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/scales.zip
The Scala program can be found on the huygens-fokker site as well, and is free.

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from Polyphony for 12, released March 27, 2017
All album art Copyright Yolanda Estes, 2017, All Rights Reserved

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Joel Taylor is a composer/improvisor/programmer who works with a wide variety of electronic and acoustic media. He performs on analog synths, computers, keyboards, shakuhachi, suling, flute, and percussion, and has composed concert music for orchestra, gamelan, and various chamber ensembles. ... more

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