NElr E,NGLAND CONSE,RVATORY Fdl 2018

591 - Perspectir.es on Spectral Nfusic

Harvey: Ashes Dance Back

"I bum awal; /augb,.m1 ashes are a/iue!

I die a lhoasand limet:
M1 ashe-r dance back
-
A lhousand newJaus."
Rumi, re-created by Andrew Harvey

There are nine harmonic sections, rn which the harmorues/trmbres are

based on Frequency
shft. The origrnal harmonic specffum is burjt onBb (116.5q H2), rvrth each subsequent
a
frequency shift of 14.57 Hz. 'Ihis results in a spectrum rhar rs gradually
mor. ,rd mor.
compressed but ends with a specftum that is part of the ongin"al spectrum
(.missing, the
fundamental).
Below is a table with the fundamental frequencies of the spectra and the
correspondrng
pages of the score:

1 2 J 4 5 6 7 B 9
Fundamental 116.54 131.11" 145.68 160.24 174.81 189.38 203.95 218.51 233.08
Frequency of
the spectrum
Coresponding 1-+ 5-1 0 11-19 20-26 z t-3.) 34-46 47 -54 55-58 59-7 6
pages in the
SCOIC

Several obsen'ations can be made, but frst it should be nouced that

the harmonic sections
do not always corncide with the form.