source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 01:05:50 +0200 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1176 From: DFinnamore@aol.com In a message dated 97-09-12 03:36:36 EDT, you write: > have noticed in my dealings this last year with folks who play music from > other cultures, with non western tunings, that they seem to know very > little about the subject of tuning, period...it seems to be more > intuitive than anything else. Yeah, I'd say that's typical. As much in the Western world as anywhere else. And what a shame! It was darn well true of me, too, until a few months ago. And I have a B. of Mus. degree! I recently described to my former Dean of the School of Fine Arts how dramatically my recent study of JI and other tunings had deepened my understanding and appreciation of music in general, not to mention greatly refining my ear for pitch. I asked him why we were not taught this stuff in school, why I had to wait 10 years after graduation to stumble upon a real understanding of music. He had no answer. My point is, understanding the hows and whys of something provides a stronger basis for intuitive usage of it. The two (knowlege and intuition) are not isolated from each other. Knowlege is power. If musicians from all cultures studied tuning, including the math and science of it, and practiced putting that knowlege to work, how much better we all would understand our own musics and those of other cultures! Not that that's entirely possible, since many don't have sufficient education in math and science to grasp the mechanisms involved. But the more the merrier, I say. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: alves@orion.ac.hmc.edu Subject: Re: srutis and such PostedDate: 13-09-97 02:07:39 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: 15-09-97 10:14:15-15-09-97 10:14:16,15-09-97 10:13:34-15-09-97 10:13:34 DeliveredDate: 15-09-97 10:13:34 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C1256511.0000AFD4; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 02:07:30 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA32756; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 02:07:39 +0200 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 02:07:39 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA32752 Received: (qmail 13172 invoked from network); 13 Sep 1997 00:07:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Sep 1997 00:07:33 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu