source file: mills3.txt Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 04:40:30 +0200 Subject: RE: What Is Microtonal Music? From: Johnny Reinhard Gordon wonders if I attend many concerts. I guess it is hard to imagine that I know what I'm talking about if one has never been to an AFMM concert or heard our work. Please check the repertoire list at the AFMM web site identified below to see what we have presented over the last 16 years. Once again, yes I consider 12ET microtonal: however, since conventional 12ET has plenty of forums for exposure and non-12ET has zilch, the AFMM naturally focuses on non-12ET. Reasonable? There are many academic disciplines that are so entrenched in Western cultural orientation that it is difficult to imagine a cross-cultural basis for anything, let alone tuning. Suffice it to say that regardless of my philosophy of microtonal music, I spend my life producing, composing, and performing "microtonal" music. The term microtonal is quite significant to me as it indicates the myriad of possibilities of musical intervals that Western convention negates. Perhaps if one imagines that "any" interval might be useful in a set of musical intervals for a piece of music, it might not be so necessary to get caught up in cultural bias, including etymology. 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/ SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: DrewLesso@aol.com Subject: Tuning Digest 1200 PostedDate: 10-10-97 07:07:00 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: 10-10-97 07:06:30-10-10-97 07:06:30,10-10-97 06:05:00-10-10-97 06:05:01 DeliveredDate: 10-10-97 06:05:01 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 C125652C.001C0BC2; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:06:20 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA12963; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:07:00 +0200 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 07:07:00 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA12921 Received: (qmail 19698 invoked from network); 9 Oct 1997 22:06:56 -0700 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Oct 1997 22:06:56 -0700 Message-Id: <971010010527_-826236448@emout06.mail.aol.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu