source file: m1377.txt Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 20:33:44 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: micropop From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >As to the related subject >of is this then microtonal music per se, my personal feeling is that if >the bending and stretching occurs over a base scale of an instrument >tuned in 12 eq, then I don't feel like calling it microtonal, overall, I think that's a respectable opinion, personally. Without a doubt, my own experience has been that the most intriguing microtonal music uses tunings built upon a fundamentally different paradigm from 12-tone. But again, that's certainly far from undebatable.