Keyboard Class Begins!
This afternoon (at 5:30pm) we’re starting the first keyboard class of the season at the community centre. Today we’re mostly talking, covering the basics of pianos and keyboards, the basic scale, parts of music, things like that.
Tonight among other things we’re going to talk about Mexican composer Julián Carrillo Trujillo. Carillo was the inventor of "The 13th Sound" (el sonido 13), a microtonal scale used in much of his music.
You can hear the strange results of using a scale very different from what you’re used to in the video below. The picture is an example of his system of notation.
24 January 2011 @ 8:16 pm
Yes, very different to my ear. This piece seems to have a sad, maybe even sinister, mood.