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Ralph David Hill
Ralph David Hill was a Composer, Music historian, Psycho-acoustician, Music software and hardware developer, and was enthusiastic about the Natural Harmonic Series and the effects of musical tunings on human beings.
Dave developed several generations of computer based voice and sound analysis programs, with hardware of his own design and construction, as well as voice and instrument synthesis, beginning in the 1970's.
Included here is a rendition of Ivor Darreg's Prelude in D Major, in 7 limit just intonation.
In addition to his work with the Harmonic Series and Extended Just Intonation, he explored the Meantone tuning, as used on 19th century pianos, and recorded some examples, which are presented here.
Published writings on microtonal music by Dave Hill
Articles, essays, papers:
Hill, Ralph David. "Just Intonation on a Home-Built Digital Synthesizer-Computer", Interval vol. 4 no. 2, fall 1983, pp. 15-22.Hill, Ralph David. "An Example of the 48:49 Sixth-tone Step", 1/1 vol. 4 no. 4, fall 1988, p. 14.
Hill, Ralph David. "Study of Whole Tones in Two Parts", 1/1 vol. 5 no. 2, 1989, pp. 6-7.
Hill, Ralph David. "The Cro-Magnon Advanced Additive Analysis/Resynthesis System", Proceedings of the 1991 International Computer Music Conference, 1991, pp. 169-176.
Hill, Ralph David. Introduction to Non-Traditional Harmony. 2-hr. cassette and accompanying notes.
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