The Paris demonstration featured the current integration into the RISM cataloguing software, Muscat, of the
Monochord tool developed at the University of Utrecht under the supervision of Prof.
Hanging on a wall near the gallery's entrance was Tritone
Monochord, 1987, a four-foot-high wooden board on which a specially tuned guitar string is suspended.
Santos described his composition as 'an experimental piece that combines the flutes and other traditional instruments of Asean and Korea, from zithers and
monochord, bowed string, xylophones, mouth organ, gongs in a row, to frame drums, two-headed drums, bamboo buzzers and stomping tubes.'
To demonstrate this, no doubt needs a long discourse; but anyone who knows the ratio, may easily discover it by listening to the rightly ordered
monochord. (76) The rightly ordered
monochord is an ancient scientific instrument, which illustrates the mathematical standard of harmony, and its Greek name is kanon ([phrase omitted]), it means law and standard.
Inventions in Music: From the
Monochord to MP3S (Art and Invention).
81-82), she offers subtle readings of the effects of musical allusions within Rossetti's actual "songs," his sonnets on paintings, poems replete with musical metaphors such as "Love's Nocturne", and finally, the "Willowwood" and "
Monochord" sonnets from "The House of Life," which in her words, offer "the feel of life to those who can no longer anticipate" (p.
In exploring the representation of nature in music, some composers developed an arithmetically driven approach; from Pythagoras' early experiments with the
monochord (and the subsequent conclusion that the world must be organized along harmonic ratios) to the adoption of ratios found in nature in the development of melody and harmony.
Through Fullman's assertion that her instrument is a microcosm of music history, Lucier discusses the Pythagorian
monochord and a rather complex, yet accessible introduction to just intonation.
Make your
monochord piece interesting using rhythms, melody, articulation, dynamics, and timbre.
The
Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
To give but one example, rationabiliter distinguens, which is used in describing the intervals on the
monochord, becomes 'breaking down ...