source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 23:44:36 -0800 Subject: Re: Matt Puzan's post on composition From: Gary <71670.2576@compuserve.com> As always I find Neil Haverstick's comments very appropriate. I think he's right that music by academics often ends up appealing to few more than academics. Nothing wrong with appealing to academics in my book of course, but Neil's certainly correct that there's a lot more folks out there than academics. I can think of one force that one could make a fair case of blame for this, although I certainly resist the idea: One could claim that academics are coming up with new tunings faster than practical musicians like Neil, Johnny Reinhard, and others can make good musical use of. I resist that idea, because I certainly don't want academics to stop coming up with new tunings ideas. Perhaps the concern is that we're not encouraging them to explore those tunings thoroughly enough before they move on? Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:25 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id GAA11291; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 06:24:56 -0800 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 06:24:56 -0800 Message-Id: <199601241422.GAA07248@netcom10.netcom.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu