source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:34:03 -0800 Subject: Re: TONICS WANDERING From: Johnny Reinhard Yes, and because they do a Lingua Franca notation that centers all musicians with the cents system of 1200 dieses to the octave is appropriate. More than I had previously realized. Since a string players can roll a finger to get about 27 cents, and wind players cannot merely "press and blow" and hope to get within 27 cents of given pitch target, cents tunes their mind up (not the instrument). Paul effectively pointed out to me that one need not use numbers higer than 25 if noteheads are enharmonically chosen. In other words, since I use notated quartertones and all deviations are an eighthtone or less from any particular quartertone, using more than 25 cents would seem moot. Thinking further, I still like using a number up to 49 cents. Wind players remember new tuning relationships in part by new fingerings. The motoric, physical memory is most valuable in learning new microtonal music. Sometimes the allocation of a single finger to an established fingering cements the new pitch to the mind. Additionally, unneccessary enharmonicism might cloud clear tonal relationships that would gain from easy recognition. 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@ios.com Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:48 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02555; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:49:59 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02556 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA28462; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 07:49:55 -0800 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 07:49:55 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu