source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:55:14 -0700 Subject: Re: Ancient Greek Modes From: Johnny Reinhard Dear Ben, May I suggest "Greek Musical Writings" I and especially II- Harmonic and Acoustic Theory edited by Andrew Barker, Cambridge University Press, 1989. It contains just about all there is. Schlesinger comes under fire for making conclusions regarding tuning based on the aulos, but fails to take in to acount reeds, embouchure, and air velocity. Aulos tuning is implied in the title of the book that she wrote, hence the problem. Of most interest to me was discovering the secret meeting between the Thracian kitharist Timotheus, just banned from Sparta for polluting music with new notes, and Euripides, living in a cave on Salamis Island in self-exile. Euripides was not only a class-A tragedian, but he was composer of music for his own works, and was known to favor the enharmonic genus (e.g. the oldest of the genera, and the one to contain "quartertones"). This meeting signals the beginning of microtonal music cooperation and mutual understanding. Johnny Reinhard Director American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@styx.ios.com Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 19:17 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA25034; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:17:46 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:17:46 -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