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Concert: #14
Date: November 26, 1985
Place: Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, NYC

lyrics

Jon Catler’s Sleeping Beauty is based on the story The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood by Charles Perrault (1628-1703). Each of the movements uses a different aspect of just intonation, regularly up to the 13th harmonic of both the overtone series and undertone series (its mirror inversion). In the first movement, the princess is cast under a spell and must sleep for 100 years, only to be awakened by a prince. Overtones are generated by inserting a bridge in the middle of the guitar neck and playing the princess theme with a bottleneck slide on the strings opposite the pick-ups. The pick-ups amplify only the overtones of the “sleeping” strings. The “queen” chords, which open the next movement, begin with a 9:11:13 triad on an “A” overtone series. The harmony moves between this and a “B natural” undertone series, from which one gets E minor. In the third movement, the prince returns to save the princess and the children from the queen. In the epilogue, past themes return briefly.
Jon Catler is a noted microtonal guitar virtuoso and innovator. He has led several bands including the Catler Bros, The Microtones, and Birdhouse, and now heads FreeNote Records, an all-microtonal music label.

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from JON CATLER - Planet Slicer 1 & 2, Codes of Ascension, Sleeping Beauty, Wave, Human, Timepeace, Messin' With the Kid, Hey Sailor, Ivory Coast, Evolution, Quaalude, Joint, Spiritual Brother, & Ornette Coleman's Free: AMERICAN FESTIVAL OF MICROTONAL MUSIC, released February 5, 2019
Jon Catler, harmonic, just, & fretless guitars, & Linn drum
Johnny Reinhard & April Chapman, bassoons
Henry Lowengard, hammered dulcimer

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