source file: mills3.txt Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 05:08:22 +0200 Subject: Re: notation again From: Johnny Reinhard Respectfully, I must disagree with Paul on this. I think the issue of notation must be seen in a description/prescription context. While describing "just" relationships in ratios and other extended notations is certainly justified both pedagogically and conceptually, it gets in the way of performance realization. In a prescriptive score for performers, a legend-page which indicates ratios being used and the philosophy behind them would be invaluable. Real time music in cents can make full useage of professional music notation training as it is now practiced. The very fact that the ear is the true judge of "just" intervals would seem to mitigate against labored ratio calculations in notation. Once appraised of the "just" aesthetic, performers easily conform to cents notation. Rehearsal time is no longer for microtonal parts done in cents notation than for conventional notation. 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: Eduardo Sabat Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1203 PostedDate: 12-10-97 14:46:25 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: 12-10-97 14:45:45-12-10-97 14:45:46,12-10-97 14:46:12-12-10-97 14:46:13 DeliveredDate: 12-10-97 14:46:13 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 C125652E.004619F4; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:45:41 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA14229; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:46:25 +0200 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:46:25 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA14238 Received: (qmail 1866 invoked from network); 12 Oct 1997 05:46:21 -0700 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Oct 1997 05:46:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199710121249.JAA14709@mail.adinet.com.uy> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu