source file: mills3.txt Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 03:41:20 +0200 Subject: SIX, ALL THE MUSIC IS MICROTONAL From: Eduardo Sabat SIX ALL THE MUSIC IS MICROTONAL TD 1187, 1213 ) Where is the 12 ? 1192, 1194, 1201, 1206 ) Musical writing ) Harmonics (Carl Lumma) 1188 ) Just listen (Marion) 1188 ) More than 12 ) Sound Spectrum continuum (Hstick) 1205 ) Cross-cultural (J. Reinhard) 1198, 1203 ) Piano's Tuning ) Microtonal Architecture (J. Szanto) 1197 - Myriad of both tunings and styles (J. Reinhard) 1201 - Xenharmonic music (John Chalmers) 1206 Musical writing Really I don't know if somebody has written no less than one hundred pages that I think it at least require, If not, this subtitle, as many others, will require a special research. The problem is why has the music writed in the staff (pentagram) a microtonal intention. When does the problem beguin ? How did it evolute, and how did somebody use it in the practice of music anywhere ? The fact is that in each Octave we have 35 note-symbols (and 35 subsequent note-names) to represent 12. With one exeption each one of the twelve notes has 3 note-symbols. G sharp-A bemol has 2. The 35 notes appertain to pythagorean criteria. But it's hard to believe that somebody had used this in practice. When I studied violin I asked about it and the answer was done theoretically. In practice more or less "go ahead and don't worry" ! The 35 notes are placed in 12 "zones of 3 notes". Being the three notes in a row of one comma of separation. All of this is implicit with microtonalism. There is another matter not conected with microtonalism but with the madhouse. -- Do you know in how many different manners may the 12 notes be written ? ----- I counted more than 500 . Eduardo -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eduardo Sabat-Garibaldi e-mail : esabat@adinet.com.uy Home: Simon Bolivar 1260 Office FAX-Phone : 598 2 900353 11300 Montevideo Home Phone : 598 2 780952 Uruguay