source file: m1379.txt Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:40:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1377 From: Johnny Reinhard Composing begins with form. The music is poured into the shape of the form. Tuning is the way the form is fractured, perhaps comparable to a set of stain glass windows. Microrhythms are as pertinent as microintervals of pitch: rhythms are intervals of time. Forms do need to be original. More than ever, staying in established convention is sounding square. If it sounds like something else it is derivative, good for the immediate short term but inadequate for the long term. IMHO. 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 On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Nangaku wrote: > Assuming we have a blank slate with respect to tuning, what would be the > extent to which tuning is defined by the form of the music, and vice versa? > When would we care what tuning a piece of music is played in? If we have a > blank slate for tuning, I assume we also have a blank slate for rhythm or form > or any possible combination of sound and silence which will appeal to the > mind. What are the limits? >