source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 05:50:05 +0200 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1139 (?'s for Gary Morrison) From: "Christopher Smith" Hello Gary - thanks for responding - > Here's a brief rundown of the nature of my microtonal music: > > Most of it is in a "classical" style, in the general sense of the word, >and it's generally fairly conventional except for the the tunings. I >mostly write for small ensembles of orchestral instruments. What sort of tunings? ET's or just? What sort of technical restrictions do you run into with various instruments (and their related performers)? For example - with unconventional woodwind fingerings, 1) are there problems writing more virtuosic material requiring them (I know from playing flute that some alternative fingerings can be pretty cumbersome) 2) are there problems acheiving precise intonation with them (since not all alt. fingerings are dead on)? If your music is just, 1) do performers grasp the concept pretty quickly and tune by ear, or do they need to think in terms of deviations from 12ET; 2) how high a prime limit do you use, and what are any difficulties you have with higher primes; 3) how beat-free is the result in performance; 4) how much does tradi- tional expressivity (vibrato, etc.) intefere with pure tuning, or, conversely, how much can it be cautiously applied while leaving theoretical niceties audible? I'm just curious with what your experiences have been performing your music, positive or negative. Thanks, Chris ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: kpeck@wavetech.net Subject: theories PostedDate: 31-07-97 01:37:12 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 31-07-97 16:42:19-31-07-97 16:42:25,31-07-97 16:41:10-31-07-97 16:41:11 DeliveredDate: 31-07-97 16:41:11 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C12564E5.00280427; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:17:06 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA25756; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 01:37:12 +0200 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 01:37:12 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA24631 Received: (qmail 25670 invoked from network); 30 Jul 1997 23:36:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Jul 1997 23:36:28 -0000 Message-Id: <199707302329.SAA03559@riptide.wavetech.net> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu