source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 06:17:27 -0700 Subject: tuning in musical styles From: Steve Curtin >The important issue, as I see it, is what sort of musical STYLES do certain >tunings fit? I mean, this all gets back to why 12/eq came about in the >first place...purely tuned scales are, for all practical purposes, very >limited in their applications...as soon as you want to move a lot of chords >around, it's all over for just intonation. Thus, jazz, "classical", most >"pop" music, and many other styles around the world cannot use JI, no >matter what people prefer...if you prefer JI over eq (and, of course, >which eq are we talking about), you ain't gonna be hearing it in bluegrass >any time soon, or just about any other music except modal based stuff. Why not bluegrass? I hear that Mark Rankin, inheritor/distributor of the Novatone interchangeable fretboards, has a JI banjo and demonstrated some bluegrass tunes on it. The 19 tone rock pieces by the Catler brothers sound appropriate, and LaMonte Young's "Forever Bad Blues Band" bands rocks the house. Wendy Carlos' Switched on Brandenburgs and Bach 2000 show that well-tuning Classical is well worth it (pun intended :). I cringe when we start talking about certain tunings only being applicable for certain types of music. For styles that modulate, adaptive tuning systems such as the Hermode tuning package used in the Waldorf Microwave are starting to come in. Does anybody have direct experience with using the Microwave for tuning? regards, Steve Curtin Ensoniq Corp Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 18:00 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA16457; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 18:01:22 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA16820 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA22691; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:01:17 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:01:17 -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