source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:06:22 +0200 Subject: Re: Tibetan Tuning From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >I've been a lurker for quite some time on this list, and am somewhat >puzzled by this reference to a Tibetan tuning utilizing 12 notes. I've >previously worked with Tibetan folk musicians, and their >compositions/folksongs are most definitely pentatonic. I'm only speculating, but perhaps the distinction here is between the array of all available pitches and the pitches used within a given composition or other set of circumstances. In analogy, very little of Western music is dodecaphonic, but the vast majority of it derives from a total of 12 pitches. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:09 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01587; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:09:03 +0200 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:09:03 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02111 Received: (qmail 9568 invoked from network); 5 Jun 1997 09:04:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Jun 1997 09:04:22 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu