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Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Revealing the Tones; Night Vigil; Revealing the Commas; Tone Cloud I; Homage to La Monte; Tone Cloud II; Night Vigil II; Vision in the Desert; Carillon; Tone Cloud III; Finale; Tone Cloud IV.
Michael Harrison: Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation
by John Kelman
Certain instruments lend themselves more readily to unorthodox tunings. The guitar, for example, is an instrument tailor-made for alteration, with artists like Joni Mitchell creating dozens of altered tunings, encouraging approaches not possible with conventional tuning. Classical pianist/composer Michael Harrison has devised a unique tuning for the far more unwieldy piano that, while it may drive ...