source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:41:40 -0700 Subject: Tuning Preferences From: John Chalmers I have slightly edited Brian's message this AM in the direction of civility as I think it has enough interesting points to be worth posting, even if it is "old business." The JI versus ET or nj-net debate is unlikely to be resolved, especially since Roberts and Mathews found that there are two types of listeners, those that prefer JI and those that prefer the richness of intervals tuned sharp or flat in triads. Frankly, given the over-learning of 12-tet that musically trained subjects will have been subjected to and the self-selection that musically naive persons will have undergone for the lack of musical discrimination abilities, I tend to be skeptical of many preference studies. My advice is for composers and performers to use the tuning they find best for their musical purposes. I suspect that their audiences will usually agree. Roberts, Linda A. and Max Mathews. "Intonation Sensitivity in Traditional and Non-Traditional Chords", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol. 75, 1984, pp. 952-959. --John Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:45 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA02099; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:45:41 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:45:41 -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