source file: mills3.txt Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:26:29 +0200 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1200 From: "Andrew L. Kaye" --------------C7F419FD4D61F2D13D5D39A3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Topic No. 1 > > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:27:26 -0400 > From: Daniel Wolf > To: "INTERNET:tuning@eartha.mills.edu" > Subject: TUNING digest 1199 > Message-ID: <199710070927_MC2-2315-9456@compuserve.com> > > D. Wolf wrote: > > I am unable to refer to the Harvard dictionary, but I find much music > made in Egypt to be > significant.... And while I cannot recall melodic use of microtones > (the > Muezzin calls aside; the faithfull would not consider this to be > ''music'= > in the first place!), I have often heard intervals used that differ > from > diatonic pythagorean intervals by microtones, thus the music can be > heard as having > a microtonal dimension, and quite possibly one that goes back to the > chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient mediterranean. So, according to D. Wolf, if a scale does not use an interval of less than a half step, but uses intervals that differ from "Pythagorean intervals" by "microtones", the music is therefore microtonal? This seems to me to be the same kind of logic J. Reinhard is pursuing, and which Mr. Wolf is vehemently objecting. Interesting. --------------C7F419FD4D61F2D13D5D39A3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Topic No. 1

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:27:26 -0400
From: Daniel Wolf <DJWOLF_MATERIAL@compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:tuning@eartha.mills.edu" <tuning@eartha.mills.edu>
Subject: TUNING digest 1199
Message-ID: <199710070927_MC2-2315-9456@compuserve.com>

D. Wolf wrote:

I am unable to refer to the Harvard dictionary, but I find much music made in Egypt to be
significant.... And while I cannot recall melodic use of microtones (the
Muezzin calls aside; the faithfull would not consider this to be ''music'=
in the first place!), I have often heard intervals used that differ from
diatonic pythagorean intervals by microtones, thus the music can be heard as having
a microtonal dimension, and quite possibly one that goes back to the
chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient mediterranean.

So, according to D. Wolf, if a scale does not use an interval of less than a half step, but uses intervals that differ from "Pythagorean intervals" by "microtones", the music is therefore microtonal?  This seems to me to be the same kind of logic J. Reinhard is pursuing, and which Mr. Wolf is vehemently objecting.  Interesting.
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