source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 17:22:34 +0200 Subject: Re: Tibetan Tuning From: Johnny Reinhard On May 14, 1988 at the MicroFest I Symposium at New York University, David Rothenberg gave a presentation entitled Timbre as Scalar Material. The gist I got out of this presentation was that the wide glissando-like melodies used by Tibetans were not improvised at all, but fully composed. The distinction here is that even the melodic shapes can be explicitly composed and that scalar tones might seem as jumping stones across a river. According to David Rothenberg's theory, the Tibetans prefer to wade through the river, avoiding the stones altogether. David Rothenberg (tel. 212-662-8506) presented musical examples and detailed his thesis, introduced above. Other presenters were Jules Siegel: Confessions of a Just Intonation Fascist; Henry Lowengard: Computer Applications; and Timothy Hill: Hoomi Overtone Singing. There was a wonderful panel discussion entitled "On the Integrity of Microtones in American Music" with Odetta, Deborah Blincoe, John Forrest, Reggie Workman, and yours truly. Johnny Reinhard American Festival of Microtonal Music - MicroMay '97 (May 16, 21-23) 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@idt.net http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/AFMM/ Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 21:11 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04736; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 21:11:05 +0200 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 21:11:05 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04734 Received: (qmail 17745 invoked from network); 6 Jun 1997 19:10:49 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jun 1997 19:10:49 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu