source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 05:43:28 -0800 Subject: Re: pure or just From: Johnny Reinhard I believe the use of "just" is reference to honest as being explicit to nature's overtone series. It is first used by Thomas Morley in his treatise on music _A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke_ (1597), the first of its kind. Incidentally, the introduction of just intervals into the Mediterranean appears to stem from England. John Dunstable is credited with being the inspiration for Dutch speakers Dufay and Binchois to travel south and share their "just" wares (c.1450). The Dutch speaker Tinctoris tried to explain the new developments by largely dismissing all that had came before it, and, ironically, by attempting to fit the new consonances into dated Pythagorean theory. There is a selection in Strunk regarding the Northumberland area of England (c.1200) where it was witnessed that there was an independent part sung by each singer singing. Ther further north one went, the more indepenedent part sung. This would seem to foretell the Renaissance interest in vertical listening. Happy New Year everyone! 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; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 16:01 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05755; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 16:04:16 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05761 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA12770; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 07:04:14 -0800 Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 07:04:14 -0800 Message-Id: <199612311001_MC2-E21-EE0@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu