source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 14:54:16 -0800 Subject: Re: So you want to be a microtonal composer? From: HFORTUIN@delphi.com You should definitely check out "New Music with 31 Tones" by Adriaan Fokker, published by Verlag fur systematische Musikwissenschaft GmbH in 1975, if you seek to incorporate some good insights into 31-ET tonality as researched by Mr. Fokker and friends. If you're lucky, you can find the English translation by Leigh Gerdine in your university music library, but otherwise you might find the Dutch or German translations. Perhaps Webster College in St. Louis, where Gerdine was president, could be of assistance. You probably already know about Joel Mandelbaum's exhaustive dissertation done at Indiana U. in 1961. Best of luck with your research. Let us know when your dissertation is complete! f you're looking for any more tonal microtonal music, I could send you copies of pieces I've done in 19 and 31-ET which are very oriented twoard harmonic exploration of intervals such as the neutral 3rd, 7:4 equivalents, etc. At the moment, I'm creating the final computer-notated versions of these, but can let you knwo when they're complete. Sincerely, Harold Fortuin, Ph.D. Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 01:07 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA05642; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 16:07:15 -0800 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 16:07:15 -0800 Message-Id: <9601211603.aa10625@cyber.cyber.net> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu