I’m nearing completion on the Brahms transcription for piano left hand of Bach’s Violin Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004, the Chaconne movement. Today’s version has all the measures, but a few wrong notes and octaves that I still need to take care of.
The piece is basically an ostinato in D minor and A major, with many passing chords in other keys, and a section where he shifts to D major, then back to D minor.
I chose one otonality for A major, and a utonality for D minor. In my 31-limit tonality diamond, each o/utonality has 16 notes. Here are the notes in each relative to a 1:1 on C:
D minor
- 1 D 9:8
- 2 E- 27:22
- 3 F 27:20
- 4 G 3:2
- 5 A 27:16
- 6 A# 27:14
- 7 B 27:25
- 8 D- 27:25
- 9 E+ 9:7
- 10 F# 27:19
- 11 G# 27:17
- 12 A+ 54:31
- 13 B 54:29
- 14 C 1:1
- 15 C+ 27:26
- 16 D# 27:23
A major
- 1 A 5:3
- 2 B 23:12
- 3 C+ 25:24
- 4 D 9:8
- 5 E 5:4
- 6 F# 19:12
- 7 G 3:2
- 8 G# 19:12
- 9 A+ 7:4
- 10 B- 11:6
- 11 C 1:1
- 12 D- 13:12
- 13 D+ 7:6
- 14 E- 29:24
- 15 E+ 31:24
- 16 F 4:3
In the following chart, I show the entire 31-limit diamond, with the D minor utonality and scale in pink, and the A major on the F utonality. Note that the A major starts it’s 5:3 6 notes up to otonality. And the D minor starts 9 notes down the utonality. I’m still working through the tuning. Click on the graphic for an enlarged version.
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Chaconne #3
