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Have people listening recommendations to hear music without equal temperament? Having played the violin for over 30 years - and sung a bit of barbershop - this is the first time I've come across it, and I'd like to hear the difference to recognize it.



Here's a piece of Byzantine chant in the first mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHpOiX2sO-s

Byzantine chant divides an octave into 72 comas. The intervals for the diatonic first mode are 10-8-12-12-10-8-12, although this changes when descending. For more information, see http://www.kelfar.net/orthodoxiaradio/Diatonic.html

Edit: The hard chromatic scale is pretty funky: http://www.kelfar.net/orthodoxiaradio/HChromatic.html


Arguably the most famous just intonation piece is La Monte Young's 5-hour The Well-Tuned Piano

Other just intonation or microtonal works:

Terry Riley - The Harp of New Albion

Glenn Branca's Symphonies #3 and #4

Lou Harrison - Piano Concerto

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Studie II (81-step microtonal scale)




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