Octaves, part 1
Some of my double-course instruments have courses tuned in octaves. I've always been drawn to octave-tuned double-courses. To me, they sound very open and full of light and air. Additionally, I've always heard the diapason and the higher octave separately as two notes. Sometimes as a wide-voiced unison. I can also hear them as one note harmonized by the other. However, of late, I realize that I'm hearing the octave-tuned double-courses differently. I don't know if I can accurately explain it. Instead of hearing two separate notes that are an octave apart, it seems that I'm now hearing it as almost a single note. At times, I don't even hear it as a single note, but something more akin to a harmonic environment, or an atmosphere. I've never heard it this way. I don't yet know the meaning behind this new development. I can say that it's already having an impact on my compositional conceptions when using instruments with octave-tu...
