Neil Thornock
Neil Thornock
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Labyrinth
Molly Smith gives a gutsy and sensitive performance of Labyrinth at Brigham Young University, 10 September 2024.
This piece is from my book of ragtime-inspired piano solos Rags-n-Things. PDF is freely downloadable on Google Drive here: bit.ly/46VWVYY
Playlist of my other rags, waltzes, etc: ua-cam.com/video/-MYTVgfIpK4/v-deo.html
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Bamboozle
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Tanner Jorden performs Bamboozle at Brigham Young University, 10 September 2024. This piece is from my book of ragtime-inspired piano solos Rags-n-Things. PDF is freely downloadable on Google Drive here: bit.ly/46VWVYY Playlist of my other rags, waltzes, etc: ua-cam.com/video/-MYTVgfIpK4/v-deo.html
Oh, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus
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A solo piano setting of a new tune by Stephen Jones for the text Oh, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus.
Junicorn Rag
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Performing my Junicorn Rag on my New Ragtime recital, 10 September 2024, at Brigham Young University. This rag is a transcription of sorts for equal tempered piano of a piece I had written in a 23-note tuning. You can listen to the microtonal one here: ua-cam.com/video/Kt4FX_DLtUY/v-deo.html This piece is from my book of ragtime-inspired piano solos Rags-n-Things. PDF is freely downloadable on ...
Iridescent Waltz
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Megan Thornock performs Iridescent Waltz by Neil Thornock at Brigham Young University on 10 September 2024. Playlist of my other rags, waltzes, etc: ua-cam.com/video/-MYTVgfIpK4/v-deo.html
Bandicoot Rag (Ragatelles No. 1)
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Bandicoot Rag from Ragatelles, a collection of short postmodern ragtime piano pieces. Playlist of my other rags, waltzes, etc: ua-cam.com/video/-MYTVgfIpK4/v-deo.html
Blueberry Patch (Ragatelles No. 2)
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Blueberry Patch from Ragatelles, a collection of short postmodern ragtime piano pieces. Playlist of my other rags, waltzes, etc: ua-cam.com/video/-MYTVgfIpK4/v-deo.html
Prelude in 13/10 tuning
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An 8-note scale generated as a sequence of the 13/10 tridecimal semisixth, an odd-sounding interval between a major third and a perfect fourth. The 8-note scale approximates 8edo and could potentially be used in a circular way. In addition to the pure 13/10, there are good representations of the 7/5 tritone and 7/4 seventh and a pretty close 6/5 minor third.
Something Spring
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A ragtime piece from my book Rags-n-Things, played on my home piano. Listen for the thunder clap and rain shower in the middle of the piece. Playlist of my other rags, waltzes, etc: ua-cam.com/video/-MYTVgfIpK4/v-deo.html
Monolith
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Performed by the Mivos Quartet at Brigham Young University February 8, 2024. The music for Monolith consists of a single sonic harmonic object, which turns around and around, shifts position, casts off light with a variety of colors and characteristics. The dotted rhythms, subtle at first, eventually pervade the entire texture, until rhythmic and melodic fragments piece themselves together into...
Microwaltz
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A brief waltz written for just intonation / rational intonation piano, tuned to the 31 prime harmonics 1-127 over the fundamental. Tuning chart at neilthornock.github.io/.
Pulsar (Adamantine Dances mvt. 1)
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The first movement of a suite of six pieces, all of them in the same isoharmonic tuning.
Two Chord Revery
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Notated in harmonics notation, played on Pianoteq. Both of the chords are isochords, meaning the chords are built on successive harmonics spaced equally far apart on the harmonic series.
Stardust Marble
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Extended rational intonation / JI isoharmony.
Spring (JI ambient album)
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My just intonation ambient album Spring. 00:00 Meadow Sunbeam 04:04 Under the Canyon Bridge on a Rainy Day 14:49 Dusk on the Hillside 25:09 Spring Nocturne 27:21 River Magic 42:48 Mountain Dawn
River Magic
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River Magic
Poem 2
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Poem 2
Poem 1
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Poem 1
Winter Variations (just intonation)
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Winter Variations (just intonation)
Junicorn Rag (23 notes to the octave)
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Junicorn Rag (23 notes to the octave)
Niknak (13 notes per octave tuning)
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Niknak (13 notes per octave tuning)
13-edo comparison with tempered 13-do scales.
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13-edo comparison with tempered 13-do scales.
Pequod Preludes 7: "Grub, ho!"
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Pequod Preludes 7: "Grub, ho!"
Pequod Preludes 25: "may the resurrection and the life'
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Pequod Preludes 25: "may the resurrection and the life'
Pequod Preludes 17: "No; only heard of him; but don't believe in him at all"
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Pequod Preludes 17: "No; only heard of him; but don't believe in him at all"
Pequod Preludes 15: a brazen lamp
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Pequod Preludes 15: a brazen lamp
Pequod Preludes 20: a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab
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Pequod Preludes 20: a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab
Pequod Preludes 4: a long sleek
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Pequod Preludes 4: a long sleek
Pequod Preludes 23: But where this superiority
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Pequod Preludes 23: But where this superiority
Pequod Preludes 21: cranial cavity
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Pequod Preludes 21: cranial cavity

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @eboone
    @eboone 15 днів тому

    super cool

  • @DanielCartercomposer
    @DanielCartercomposer 15 днів тому

    Your work never disappoints. And kudos to Steve for a lovely tune.

  • @KadenLarson
    @KadenLarson 17 днів тому

    So many unexpected twists! Love it.

  • @spencerbaldwincomposer
    @spencerbaldwincomposer 19 днів тому

    Bravo to both the composer and pianist! Wow!

  • @HolyCrudCakes
    @HolyCrudCakes 19 днів тому

    This is awesome. Definitely transported me to a different time and place. Loved it.

  • @Eliezer_maurival
    @Eliezer_maurival 21 день тому

    super awesome keep uploading please!!!

  • @MichaelWahlquist
    @MichaelWahlquist 22 дні тому

    The best response I have yet heard to any of the new hymns!

  • @JohnLeonardMusic
    @JohnLeonardMusic 26 днів тому

    Sounds awesome still, but simply cannot touch the original 23 edo version

    • @neilthornock
      @neilthornock 26 днів тому

      Yeah it's certainly a different piece!

  • @andrewkahler6399
    @andrewkahler6399 27 днів тому

    Holy crap how did you engrave this?!

    • @neilthornock
      @neilthornock 27 днів тому

      Lilypond deep deep hack. Amazing what it can do!

  • @MortisTheneRd
    @MortisTheneRd Місяць тому

    Astonishing performance!!

  • @EnochThornock
    @EnochThornock Місяць тому

    This is such a beautiful performance. And what a gorgeous, gorgeous piece.

  • @romeolz
    @romeolz Місяць тому

    this is in the category 'listen to this when descending into mania' with bryan deisters bohlen-pierce waltz, i love this

  • @MichaelBonaventure
    @MichaelBonaventure Місяць тому

    Magic.

  • @MichaelBonaventure
    @MichaelBonaventure Місяць тому

    Lovely stuff, Neil. Really enjoying these Ragatelles & hope you'll be posting some more!

  • @michaeldhicks
    @michaeldhicks Місяць тому

    A perfect opening chapter for the anthology to follow.

  • @Incredible_Piano
    @Incredible_Piano Місяць тому

    Lovely🎉

  • @serbannichifor
    @serbannichifor Місяць тому

    Congratullations! ❤

  • @michaeldhicks
    @michaeldhicks Місяць тому

    Wow. Truly superb-and, oddly, one of your more surrealist pieces, to my ears.

  • @Spitzfire
    @Spitzfire Місяць тому

    I enjoyed this! Lots of color and surprises-well done!

  • @danterosati
    @danterosati Місяць тому

    neat! sounds a bit like one of Messiaen's organ improvisations, but with cooler tuning.

  • @michaeldhicks
    @michaeldhicks Місяць тому

    That's some powerful moonshine, son.

  • @machida5114
    @machida5114 Місяць тому

    quite delicious.....

  • @EnochThornock
    @EnochThornock 2 місяці тому

    Love this a lot

  • @danterosati
    @danterosati 2 місяці тому

    wow thats like the coolest rag I've ever heard. Totally authentic to the style, beautiful and with cool postmodern deconstruction sections too lol. more please!

  • @stephenweigel
    @stephenweigel 2 місяці тому

    great stuff, this must have been madly hard to play!!!

  • @hyrumkohler
    @hyrumkohler 2 місяці тому

    👏🏻 Wow, the Mivos Quartet did excellently! The tuning for this seems difficult. I love the pause at 6:44

    • @neilthornock
      @neilthornock 2 місяці тому

      Credit to the quartet for adding that particular pause.

  • @mikethornock5229
    @mikethornock5229 3 місяці тому

    Speaking as a non musical major, I don't know what is being done, but I found it quite a lovely trip through beautiful sounds. Very enjoyable!

  • @davidryan3711
    @davidryan3711 3 місяці тому

    Nice album Neil! Listening all the way through this.

  • @bensabey
    @bensabey 3 місяці тому

    wow.

  • @danterosati
    @danterosati 3 місяці тому

    wow! freakin' fantastic!

  • @michaeldhicks
    @michaeldhicks 3 місяці тому

    Ravishing!

  • @flockofscallops
    @flockofscallops 3 місяці тому

    This is so cool and beautiful!! 😍

  • @johnnyreinhard7937
    @johnnyreinhard7937 3 місяці тому

    An elegant use of the harmonics on the piano. Excellent all around.

  • @stephenweigel
    @stephenweigel 3 місяці тому

    Wow Neil this is great! Is the tuning different for each octave?

    • @neilthornock
      @neilthornock 3 місяці тому

      Thanks Stephen! Yes different tuning for each octave.

  • @Symbioticism
    @Symbioticism 3 місяці тому

    Really wonderful, great job.

  • @isaacmurphy591
    @isaacmurphy591 4 місяці тому

    This is some of the best xenharmonic music I've heard! Wonderful job blending the strange tuning with familiar western idioms. A great extension of 7edo is 21edo- it gives you 400 cent major thirds and nearly perfect harmonic sevenths.

  • @noekiyu
    @noekiyu 5 місяців тому

    Interesting!. Thanks for uploading. No offense, but my ears don't like it.😂

  • @Lucius_Chiaraviglio
    @Lucius_Chiaraviglio 5 місяців тому

    Has a combination Medieval and modern feel to it. I think it would be worth looking into a well-tempered derivative of 7EDO for the next version of this. I am thinking of what the music of the nation of Georgia uses (Kartvellian scale) -- according to Xehnarmonic Wiki, this consists of alternating 4ED3/2 (4EDF) and 3ED4/3.. They link to a short video ua-cam.com/video/FVxD6NB8-CI/v-deo.html (Georgian chant lesson) which I have watched and a LONG video ua-cam.com/video/TFncneafovI/v-deo.html (conference presentation on the Georgian sound scale) which I have not yet watched (but I put it in my Watch Later list).

  • @eboone
    @eboone 6 місяців тому

    7edo on top

  • @runinvandeivil
    @runinvandeivil 7 місяців тому

    Great piece, I love microtonal music

  • @nyctotheory
    @nyctotheory 7 місяців тому

    I don't know what about this sends my fight or flight reflex into action, but man. This really unsettles me. Haunting. Great work

    • @Starshine777
      @Starshine777 7 місяців тому

      yeah this is a little too prickly for me at the moment, to listen to. it could augment a scene in a movie, show, or game really effectively.

  • @whatsthatnoise5955
    @whatsthatnoise5955 7 місяців тому

    Very interesting notation! I might also steal it haha

  • @davidryan3711
    @davidryan3711 7 місяців тому

    Appreciate seeing this notation, might use it myself! It is good for otonal chords, less useful for utonal chords

  • @danterosati
    @danterosati 7 місяців тому

    wow!

  • @kcolemanhorn
    @kcolemanhorn 7 місяців тому

    this is eerily comforting. like something you’d hear during the end times. very interesting!

  • @dorritsmedsgard5900
    @dorritsmedsgard5900 7 місяців тому

    Interesting

  • @paolopiaser_SystemsComposer
    @paolopiaser_SystemsComposer 7 місяців тому

    What's the intrument used, and how was it played?

    • @neilthornock
      @neilthornock 7 місяців тому

      Played on a cheapo midi keyboard through Pianoteq, which I tuned with a scala file.

  • @danterosati
    @danterosati 7 місяців тому

    very interesting tuning! quite pretty actually.

  • @leeda36
    @leeda36 8 місяців тому

    equal temperament always sounds magical!

  • @JohnLeonardMusic
    @JohnLeonardMusic 8 місяців тому

    Beautiful innovation on ragtime, never heard such harmonies before