Music for strings is a work that pretends to be completely tonal but uses subtle tuning shifts throughout to heighten the melodic and harmonic effect of the music.
!Extended just intonation 28 note set as used in William Copper's Music for Strings ! F tonic ! Approximate JI tuning in cents from tonic. Please note this is a derived file. ! Please see the music score for the authoritative tuning reference. ! Column Headings: ! CENTS | NOTE NAME | Tuning reference from A440 | Tuning reference from F tonic 0000 ! F +14 0 0070 ! F# -16 -30 0090 ! F# +6 - 8 0148 ! Fx -38 -52 0182 ! G - 4 -18 0204 ! G +18 + 4 0252 ! G# -34 -48 0274 ! G# -12 -26 0292 ! Ab + 8 - 6 0316 ! Ab +30 +16 0364 ! A -22 -36 0386 ! A + 0 -14 0456 ! A# -30 -44 0498 ! Bb +12 - 2 0568 ! B -18 -32 0590 ! B + 4 -10 0660 ! B# -26 -40 0680 ! C - 6 -20 0702 ! C +16 + 2 0772 ! C# -14 -28 0862 ! D -24 -38 0884 ! D - 2 -16 0906 ! D +20 + 6 0954 ! D# -32 -46 0976 ! D# -10 -24 1066 ! E -20 -34 1088 ! E + 2 -12 1156 ! E# -28 -44 1178 ! F - 8 -22
Copper, William (b Lyndhurst, VA, 29 Aug 1953). American composer of contemporary classical music, theorist, and the world's foremost authority on Intonalism, the science of structuring music according to intonation. His music has been called "stunning", "beautiful" , and "Bach combined with Wagner"; his writing cited for "extraordinary technical skills".