source file: mills3.txt Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 02:06:03 +0100 Subject: Defects of Just Intonation? From: "Bob Lee" Gregg Gibson wrote: >When one knows nothing of the matter of tuning, the choice of a tuning >appears purely arbitrary, but the more one learns of the principles that >govern music ? all human music ? the more one realizes that, although >there is incredible tuning variation within human music, there is also a >very obvious and powerful tendency toward just intonation, or rather, >toward some system that shall preserve the advantages of just >intonation, while remedying its defects, and if possible even adding to >its available melodico-harmonic resources, especially in conjunct music >of very limited compass, where sheer dead-reckoning can be used to sing >and understand intervals outside the realm of just intonation. That's a really big sentence, Gregg! What to you consider to be the defects of JI that must be remedied? The only problem I have with just intonation is that most musical instruments can't support it. I've always felt that JI itself is a perfect musical system. What "defects" have I overlooked? -b0b- ----- quasar@wco.com (Bobby Lee) http://wco.com/~quasar/ SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Paul N. Bailey" <103445.713@compuserve.com> Subject: WELL TEMPERED GUITAR PostedDate: 21-12-97 04:57:27 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: 21-12-97 04:55:16-21-12-97 04:55:17,21-12-97 04:54:50-21-12-97 04:54:51 DeliveredDate: 21-12-97 04:54:51 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 C1256574.00158895; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 04:57:08 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA22936; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 04:57:27 +0100 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 04:57:27 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA22759 Received: (qmail 15753 invoked from network); 20 Dec 1997 19:57:23 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Dec 1997 19:57:23 -0800 Message-Id: <199712202230_MC2-2CB8-9731@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu