source file: mills3.txt Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:37:35 +0200 Subject: Re: What Is Microtonal Music? From: Johnny Reinhard To the cause of intellectual rigor, or phenomenologically, to the things themselves! Out-of-tune amateurity, or pure pitch error, is something I experince with kids. In the world of professional music, musicians are admirable in their abilities to shape pitch. In my corner of the world we work with many different tunings and may have more athletic ears than most. My "yardstick" and the one I encourage is 1200ET. Wilful misunderstanding aside, what I hope to express is that there is more exactitude this way than with any other model I know. Between any 2 points on a 1200 point line there is a musical interval which can be made sensible through repetition. I have no cultural bias as to which intervals are microtonal and which are not. And I realize it is quite a leap of the imagination to bracket your existence with 12ET and see things in more of a unified theory of intervals. For detail, Jon Szanto and others can ask for a copy of Phenomenology and Its Application to Microtonal Music, or borrow it from a friend. E-mail is not the easiest medium for such a topic. The AFMM is what it is: a forum for non-12ET musics from a myriad of both tunings and styles. And yes, I do consider 12ET microtonal. I hope that Jon can handle that this is my philosophy -- shared by other prominent microtonalists -- and can finally get some sleep. :) Johnny Reinhard Director American Festival of Microtonal Music 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/ p.s. Jon, what does the drummer of Pink Floyd have to do with the repeated 5/4 major thirds on _The Final Cut_? SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Fred Kohler" Subject: Re: E-Mu Morpheus PostedDate: 08-10-97 17:34:01 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $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: 08-10-97 17:33:30-08-10-97 17:33:31,08-10-97 16:32:03-08-10-97 16:32:03 DeliveredDate: 08-10-97 16:32:03 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125652A.0055747D; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:33:23 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA11306; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:34:01 +0200 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:34:01 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09765 Received: (qmail 25521 invoked from network); 8 Oct 1997 08:33:51 -0700 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Oct 1997 08:33:51 -0700 Message-Id: <01bcd3fe$e8bebee0$361dc2cf@a1a05977> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu