source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 03:33:54 -0700 Subject: Re: April Fools, Wagner, UNABOM, Xfiles, Quantum Mechanics... From: Atlas Eclipticalis >Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:34:23 -0700 >From: smith@cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald Smith) >Having played the prelude to Tristan (piano reduction) many times, >I hear it in a minor. I don't think that this I don't think that >this is too much of a stretch since all of the main cadences are >either on I iv (IV), V and VI (deceptive) >I am sure one can produce copious analytical documentation to support >thea-minor key area, an octotonic basis or, what seems a stretch to >me, an atonal reading of the piece. >After all is said, the question is: What are you hearing >and, perhaps, why? That sure seems to be the question on everyone's mind in this list. That's why I posted it. Has less to do with Wagner's music, than the trend he embodied of artists inevstigating new proving ground, such as xenharmony as it blossomed in the post-Romantic era, along with Nazism and metamathematics. Other tuning readers might notice that the whole shooting match was considered a Wagner analysis. Few more days until MayDay. Rick http://www.garlic.com/~ribarbe/mcd.html --- E am not especially clever, just basically very average, E merely try to maximise thee effectiveness of whatever gifts or abilities E have by focusing them towards what E want to happen. Genesis P-Orridge finger for PGP pub key 9 Jul 81 TGHQGB pLUNDERaNDaSSIMILATEtHEhISTORYoFmUSIC http://garlic.com/~ribarbe/vth Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:20 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA31935; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:20:55 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA31864 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id LAA06072; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 11:17:31 -0700 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 11:17:31 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu