source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 06:44:28 -0800 Subject: Re: Greetings to all From: Rabia Kathleen Seidel Marc Holbert wrote: > > Greetings to all on this list. > > I'm wondering if any of the list members would be able to give me a > slight introduction to the discussions of just intonation, microtonality, > etc., or perhaps a pointer to a web site or other resource where I could > learn more about this. It would probably be best to e-mail me privately, > so as not to disturb the discussions on the list. > Dear Marc and all, I'm in the same boat, and there may be more than a few of us, so I'll write publicly. This is a great place to play: Microtonal Music -- a wonderful collection of links by John Starrett Here are some articles that are basic enough for me, a non-mathematician, to understand: Tuning Tutorial, by John Starrett A Tour Up The Harmonic Series, by David Canright Pentatonics I Have Known, by David Canright How We Became Well Tempered, by Peter Rorke Music and Number, by Joseph Milne Best regards, Kathleen Seidel Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 17:26 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA14211; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 17:26:34 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA14311 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA24573; Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:26:30 -0800 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:26:30 -0800 Message-Id: <009AED71808C0852.0C43@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu