source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:39:38 -0700 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 850 From: Brian Belet South Dakota comment: I grew up in S. Dak. -- it's all that singing with cows (during the day) and coyotes (at night) that develop the microtonality in the northern plains! (There's probably more truth to this than just another tale....) Kudos to Anthony Lis for encouraging this with his students (we worked together in the S.D. Composers Forum years back). Allen Strange and I are likewise introducing so-called microtonal concepts to our 1st-semester music systems class (no longer called "theory"); those students who are aware of their world have no problem with these issues (alas, those students who are among the walking comotose do not get it.....but then they are not getting Mozart's sevenths resolving down by step either). -- Brian Belet (South Dakota raised, and proud of it -- now surfing in California) Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:19 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06493; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 20:19:32 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06644 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA12761; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:19:30 -0700 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:19:30 -0700 Message-Id: <55960930191755/0005695065PK5EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu