source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 07:18:08 +0200 Subject: Microtonal (or any) authenticity From: "Jonathan M. Szanto" Well, respected elders, learned scholars, kids: John Starret asks -- >What do you think? By what are we bound in the interpretation of another >microtonalist's music? [...snip...] >It seems to me that a sensitive arrangement of Partch for string quartet >is entirely appropriate, as long as the tonality is respected. Question is: should I respond on the list or to John personally? It was nigh well one year ago, on July 12, 1996, when O Absent One (Brian McLaren) first broached the subject. It got me into the fray, and really (*really*), matters Partchian have been churning ever since! It may be very old hat at this point; OTOH, there might be new members since then that aren't aware of some of the, if not 'educated', then 'experienced' voices in this matter. I've had just brief correspondences with John Starret, who is a great resource online, and we can work off-list, I'm sure. If you want to see the original go-around, they were one of the first pieces of ... content on Corporeal Meadows, still ensconced at: http://www.adnc.com/web/jszanto/jrnl_0.html I'll let one or two cycles of the digest go around (hmmm...cycles) before coming in again. Bye! Cheers, Jon P.S. >Hell, John Schneider plays >Partch on his guitar and doesn't get slapped around (as far as I know). As an aside, I have spoken with John Schneider at length about this, including disagreements. That said, there is a world of, a galaxy of, a mighty universe of difference between someone recreating an instrument the work was composed for to perform it as intended, and someone transcribing it for not only an unintended but *unwanted* ensemble. Pure poop. *--------------------------------------------------------------------* Jonathan M. Szanto | If spirits can live online . . . . . . . . . Backbeats & Interrupts | . . . . . Partch lives in Corporeal Meadows jszanto@adnc.com | http://www.adnc.com/web/jszanto/welcome.html *--------------------------------------------------------------------* Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 08:36 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04781; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 08:37:16 +0200 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 08:37:16 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04786 Received: (qmail 21335 invoked from network); 4 Jul 1997 06:36:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jul 1997 06:36:53 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu