source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:50:23 -0700 From: emoon@netvoyage.net (Eric Moon) >>>>>This attitude is the natural consequence of a causal relationship >>>>>where the great works are first and the theoretical interest >afterwards. > It would seem equally natural, then, that there is no interest for >a generalized practice of educating music students in >the *how-to*s of some "exotic" intonation systems for which there is no >significant corpus of real masterpieces.<<<<<< To the extent that this is tru, it certainly underscores the irrelevance of academia to the creative process. However, I was "turned on to", if not educated in, microtonalism through my university composition teacher. Even in a purely historical context, it would be nice to see a broader understanding of the nature and use of pre-ET in the rennaissance and baroque. I am amazed at how few music students are aware of the existence of anything but ET. Eric Moon Temiqui Music Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:13 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA16266; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 12:13:20 -0700 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 12:13:20 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu