source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 06:47:14 -0800 Subject: Re: Happy Holidays From: Johnny Reinhard Well, it's that time of year again -- time for the Microtonal Bach radio program on Christmas Day on WKCR-FM, 89.9 in New York from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Today I will have flutist Andrew Bolotowsky demonstrate the difference between Werckmeister III and 12ET on a baroque flute in the Bach solo for flute in A-minor. It is interesting to me that C minor has all notes a bit lower that 12 ET points, while D minor has all notes a bit higher, and A minor mixes it up a bit. To John: Armenians are reputed to be descended from Phrygian pioneers (Herodotus) that landed in the old Urartu area (which apparently imploded). I'm not suggesting Phrygian scales, of course, only that Armenian culture has a sure footing in the Greek music frame. Turkish does apppear to be the resultant of 24 cycles of fifth (which I believe is expressed by d'Erlanger). However, Iranian is based on tetrachords and has a distinct tuning modas operandi. The Iranian dastgah seems more in line structurally with Bulgarian music: it has an immutable 4th with 2 mutable inner notes. An interesting aside, Turks read from sheet music, while Iranians use the equivalent of a "fake book" called the Radif (which I have recently heard is instrument specific). Johnny Reinhard 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, 26 Dec 1996 07:17 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02621; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 07:20:14 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03110 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA14914; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:20:11 -0800 Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:20:11 -0800 Message-Id: <851580325@csst.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu