source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 09:12:12 -0700 Subject: more Partch comments From: bq912@freenet.uchsc.edu (Neil G. Haverstick) Haverstick again...once again, pardon me if I'm wrong, but did not Partch himself, in several places in his book, get rather indignant at those folks who had possession of microtonal keyboards (such as Universities), but kept them under glass, so to speak, and would not allow access to them by interested parties? And rightfully so... Jon Szanto's comment to me in the last digest about respecting a person's wishes as to how they want their music performed, referring to Partch, was OK by me...but, again, I must state that music, once brought into the physical world, belongs to no one (except in a legal sense, to prevent them from getting ripped off)...since I did not know Partch, I am at somewhat of a disadvantage here...but, I see no sensible reason why his music should not be performed by whoever wants to, on whatever instruments they want to use. Of course, one should respect another's wishes...however, I think being selfish with one's art is unacceptable on a deep level...sorry...Hstick Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 19:23 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id KAA21195; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 10:23:18 -0700 Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 10:23:18 -0700 Message-Id: <199607271721.LAA18998@freenet.uchsc.EDU> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu