The Music Page

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My Wii Music videos

Featured video: 2 Years of Wii Music

Over the last two years, I've uploaded quite a few different versions of songs in Wii Music. Some are close to the original versions, and others have been changed to the point that they're unrecognizable. To mark the two year anniversary of the release of Wii Music in North America, I went through my video collection and put together this sequence of excerpts from each of the 50 songs in Wii Music.

Notes on tuning:

• Porcupine temperament
• Diminished temperament
• Augmented temperament
• Superpelog tuning
• Zireen music
• Regular temperaments {NEW}

MP3 samples

• My FTP site (48kbps mono).
• Daybreak on Slendro Mountain (5-ET) © 2000

MIDI files of my music

• Galatsia (1982 orchestral version) part 1, part 2 © 1979 (12-ET)
• The Elven Princess © 1983 (12-ET)
• The Dragons of Torennilan (piano solo) © 1984 (12-ET); John A. deLaubenfels' optimum fixed tuning version
• Kroçnardsklestj (an Olaetian dance) © 1988
  -->New retuned versions: 22-ET, Just intonation
• Xeyénike (an Olaetian song) © 1978
• Kaltan Nazenyaç (a General MIDI arrangement of a composition I originally wrote for the Moog synthesizer in an electronic music class) © 1986
• The Caves of Telaras © 1989 (12-ET)
• Zenrat Sedilatsykh © 1989
• Triskaidekaphobia (an exercise in 13-tone equal tuning) © 1998
• Etude in 16-tone equal tuning © 1998
• Etude in 20-tone equal tuning © 1999
• Etude in 26-tone equal tuning © 1998
• The Star-Crystals of Telaras © 1985 (12-ET); retuned to 1/9-schisma temperament (a series of 34 fifths, each tempered by 0.2 cents)
• Galticeran (The Black Caves) © 1986 (12-ET); retuned to 15-ET, 22-ET.
  Other retuned versions: 21-ET, 27-ET, and John A. deLaubenfels' most recent 7-limit adaptive just intonation version with stretched octaves.
  NEW: TOP augmented version (<<3, 0, 6, -7, 1, 14]] temperament)!
• Rriladéni Tharnien (© 1987): harp solo version (12-ET), expanded version (1/4-comma meantone), John A. deLaubenfels' 5-limit adaptive just intonation version.
• Mizarian Porcupine Overture (15-ET) © 1999
• Fue Marrgarrel (various tunings) © 1999
• This Way to the Egress (14-ET) © 2000
  -->New retuned version: superpelog[14]
• Transformation (17-ET) © 2000
• Daybreak on Slendro Mountain (5-ET) © 2000

Retuned versions of familiar music

• The Star-Spangled Banner in 22-note per octave equal tuning (22-ET).
• Deck the Halls in 19-note per octave equal tuning (19-ET).
• The beginning of Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra in 5-limit Just Intonation.
• The "Warped Canon" page -- retuned versions of Pachelbel's Canon in many tunings.
• Maurice Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte in 19-ET.
• The Pavane for a Warped Princess page: Ravel's Pavane in various tunings.
• Porcupines in the Moonlight: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata retuned to 15-ET. 1st movement, 2nd movement, 3rd movement

Works in progress

• Marsupial Jazz Ensemble © 1997 (19-ET). An incomplete MIDI arrangement of Computer Variation No. 1 (© 1987)
• Yeequitch and Keesha © 1999 (15-ET).
• It Can Be Done! © 2002 (11-ET).

Links

• Musical terms in Gjarrda with audio examples
• John Starrett's Microtonal Music Page