Beyond MIDI: Theoretical foundations for the Voice- Instrument Digital Interface for Byzantine Music
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The quantitative differences lie in the intervals used in Western and Byzantine music. Byzantine chants contain certain intervals, accidentals, and tonal attractions which result in pitches that do not exist on the equally tempered keyboard, the standard for pitch relationships in contemporary Western compositions. These subtle differences add a unique beauty to BM melodies. Although there was a tendency to consider these differences of minor significance for transcription to the CMN corpus (Wellesz, 1958) recent advances in computer music reproduction schemes pose the need for a detailed and documented incorporation of these attributes to the digital interfaces of contemporary instrumentation.
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