Having been fortunate to find a real performance that was midi recorded I present several version of Debussy’s Arabesque No. 1. One of the tunings presented seemed to be magical at places. I will let the listener decide which, if any, of these trans-tuned versions are ear-worthy. The tunings used are listed below. You can also listen to a comparative tuning series of Debussy’s The Snow is Dancing.
Margo Schulter’s Indigo 12
Gene Ward Smith’s Locomotive
Keenan Pepper’s paraphy
Pythagorean
11 Limit
125 cent ET
Andrew Heathwaite’s 65 cent ET
88 cent ET
John O’Sullivan’s Blue JI
John O’Sullivan’s Raven v2
Kontakt’s Adaptive Just Intonation and choir plus harp and reduced tempo.
! indigo12.scl
!
Expansion of 12:13:14:16:18:21:22:24
12
!
28/27
13/12
7/6
11/9
4/3
13/9
3/2
14/9
13/8
7/4
11/6
2/1
! locomotive.scl
A 2.9.11.13 subgroup scale
12
!
88/81
9/8
11/9
16/13
11/8
13/9
16/11
13/8
18/11
16/9
81/44
2/1
! parapyth12.scl
!
A triple Fokker block of the 2.3.7.11.13 temperament called “parapyth” (TOP tuning)
12
!
58.23604
206.95866
265.19471
413.91733
472.15337
554.50965
703.23227
761.46832
910.19094
968.42698
1117.14960
1199.50588
! pyth_12.scl
!
12-tone Pythagorean scale
12
!
2187/2048
9/8
32/27
81/64
4/3
729/512
3/2
6561/4096
27/16
16/9
243/128
2/1
(this is assumed to be the same as packaged with pianoteq – the pianoteq version used)
! E:\cakewalk\scales\11-limit-only.scl
!
11-limit-only
11
!
12/11
11/10
11/9
14/11
11/8
16/11
11/7
18/11
20/11
11/6
2/1
! E:\cakewalk\scales\125cent.scl
!
125 cent tuning
4
!
125.00000
250.00000
375.00000
500.00000
! E:\cakewalk\scales\65cET.scl
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65cET by Andrew Heathwaite
20
!
1/1
65.00000
130.00000
195.00000
260.00000
325.00000
390.00000
455.00000
520.00000
585.00000
650.00000
715.00000
780.00000
845.00000
910.00000
975.00000
1040.00000
1105.00000
1170.00000
1235.00000
! E:\Cakewalk\scales\88cent.scl
!
88 cent
12
!
88.00000
176.00000
264.00000
352.00000
440.00000
528.00000
616.00000
704.00000
792.00000
880.00000
968.00000
1056.00000
! C:\Cakewalk\scales\blue-ji.scl
!
Blue JI
12
!
15/14
9/8
6/5
5/4
4/3
7/5
3/2
8/5
5/3
9/5
15/8
2/1
! E:\cakewalk\scales\raven_v2.scl
!
Raven V-2
12
!
113.81510
208.99190
315.64130
386.31370
498.04500
577.43040
701.95500
810.29840
877.58290
967.13200
1095.04450
1200.00000