source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 20:15:41 -0800 Subject: Re: WTK/WTC/DWK From: Johnny Reinhard I'm finally back on line since my address was changed to reinhard@idt.net I've been teaching music composition and theory at C.W. Post, Long Island University so that list member Howard Rovics can take a sabatical. Prof. Rovics is composing for bassoon and flute in eighthtones, along with synthesizer in the mean time. Thursday, March 6th I am lecturing at Post on Ives' Universe Symphony, now studio mixed to CD, non-commercial. I have been reading the list, however, and would like to add 2 cents. For Beethoven to declare his ability to distinguish between and C# and Db would coincide with Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Beethoven's contemporary and pianistic rival. Humel writes in 1850 in his piano treatise that though the piano erases the distinctions between enharmonic relationships, they are important for composition. And that this needn't concern the pianist. It also is interesting that there seems a Dutch propensity to keeping JS Bach in the 12ET corral. When Rudolf Rasch published his Musicalische Temperatur edition from plates, untranslaed, he added a lengthy prologue regardings his conjectures on Bach's tuning. This, though, there is nary a mention of 12ET. I am in possession of a translation of this _still_ untranslated cornerstone of tuning history thanks to Mark Lindley, by way of one Elizabeth Hehr. In my paper _Bach's Tuning_ published in PITCH I:2 I challenged Professor Rasch - a good friend and always Rudolf to me. There are those that do not recognize either the aesthetic virtue of variegated keys, or its historical likelihood. Johnny Reinhard American Festival of Microtonal Music reinhard@idt.com Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 06:36 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06274; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 06:36:39 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06330 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id VAA20791; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 21:35:11 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 21:35:11 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu