source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 05:57:55 -0700 Subject: notations/Fonville From: Adam Silverman Reply to Jonathan Walker's comment: That's an interesting point about Fonville's misunderstanding of the OT/UT concept; it's especially funny to me since this is the very point on which I was just corrected by David Doty regarding my new article in 1/1, to be found in the next issue (whenever that comes out). I stand by my recommendation, however, that John Fonville's "Perspectives" artcile is the best introduction on Johnston's notation written so far. In spite of his confusion with labeling intervals as "otonal" or "utonal", it is a concise and clear introduction to Just Intonation as Ben applies it, and especially to his notational system--the best which I have found so far for extended JI (excluding Dan Wolf's alterations to this system, which seem to be worthy of canonization except that it seems to me that if one uses Ben's notation, then it is easier to use Ben's performers. Perhaps Dan should explain his take on the whole thing (using a 3-limit focus instead of Ben's 5-limit bias; if Dan doesn't remember our conversation, perhaps he can think back to Krems an die Donau... he taught me quite a bit an a late-night steak house). Fonvilles small article is certainly clearer than Von Gunden's book, and also more concise than Doty's, which spreads JI and extended JI over many chapters. My biggest problems with this notation involve complicated chains of accidentals, and I'm trying to figure out a good way to use key signatures. If you have a real gripe and would like to set Fonville straight, I suggest that you write him at San Diego State University before he completes his large book on Ben's quartets, which will certainly include a chapter on this subject. As soon as I check out your material on generalizing this notation for meantone, perhaps we can discuss this off-the-list. I'm not very well versed in meantones, though. Yours, Adam Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:10 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA19932; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:12:31 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA19947 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA08029; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 07:12:28 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 07:12:28 -0700 Message-Id: <9610251510.AA00739@arthaud.saclay.cea.fr> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu