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Exercises

Which MIDI instruments are best for intonation studies?

I'm not sure but the following seem to be pretty good:

\set Staff.midiInstrument = #"reed organ" % #"lead 2"

Fifth (many repeats)

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$\language "english" \relative c\transpose c c'' {\set Staff.midiInstrument = #"reed organ" \key c\major \time 4/4 \tempo "" 4 = 120 c,1 c,1 g,1 g,1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 <c,g,>2 c, g, c, r1 r1 r1 r1 }$

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Major Sixth M6

$%DEF \language "english" \relative c\transpose c c'' {\set Staff.midiInstrument = #"reed organ" \key c\major \time 4/4 \tempo "" 4 = 80 %END \language "english" \relative c\transpose c c'' {\set Staff.midiInstrument = #"reed organ" \key c\major \time 4/4 \tempo "" 4 = 80 c,1 a,1 a,1 c,1 <a,c,> c,16 d, e, f, g, a, a,8 a,16 g, f, e, d, c, c,8 % stop or repeat passage }$

%DEF \language "english" \relative c\transpose c c'' {\set Staff.midiInstrument = #"reed organ" \key c\major \time 4/4 \tempo "" 4 = 80 %END

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Four octave scale (labeled)

${ \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff <<\new Voice \relative c'' { \clef treble r1 r1 r8_"261.16" c,8^"c'" d8 e f g a_"440"^"a'" b c4^"c''"_"523.25" d8 e f g a b c1^"c'''"_"1046.5" } \new Staff \relative c { \clef bass % treble-bass transition c,4_"C=c,"^"65.406" d8 e f g a b c4_"c"^"130.81" d8 e f g a b c_"c' is repeated" r8 r4 r2 r1 r1 } >> >> } % close$

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Four octave scale

$\language "english" \relative c{ \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff <<\new Voice \transpose c c % \transpose c c IS DEFAULT: CHANGE TO c d TWICE {\clef treble \key c \major r1 r1 | r8 c' d'8 e' f' g' a' b' | c''4 d''8 e'' f'' g'' a'' b'' | c'''1 |r1} \new Staff \transpose c c % \transpose c c IS DEFAULT: CHANGE TO c d TWICE { \clef bass \key c \major c,4 d,8 e, f, g, a, b, | c4 d8 e f g a b | c' r8 r4 r2 r1 | r1 |c,1} >> >> } % close$

\transpose c c 
% \transpose c c IS DEFAULT: CHANGE TO c d TWICE

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example

$\language "english" \relative c{ \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff <<\new Voice \transpose c d % \transpose c c IS DEFAULT: CHANGE TO c d TWICE {\clef treble \key c \major r1 r1 | r8 c' d'8 e' f' g' a' b' | c''4 d''8 e'' f'' g'' a'' b'' | c'''1 |r1} \new Staff \transpose c d % \transpose c c IS DEFAULT: CHANGE TO c d TWICE { \clef bass \key c \major c,4 d,8 e, f, g, a, b, | c4 d8 e f g a b | c' r8 r4 r2 r1 | r1 |c,1} >> >> } % close$

\transpose c d 
% \transpose c c IS DEFAULT: CHANGE TO c d TWICE