source file: m1603.txt Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:37:59 -0500 Subject: two suggestions for the promotion of tuning From: Daniel Wolf I have two suggestions for the promotion of tuning to broader musical communities. = The first is that the continuous invention and proliferation of new terminology (and the ensuing conflicts over definitions) is self-defeatin= g. Most of the ideas we are engaged in can be discussed without inventing ne= w terms and most ordinary musicians are turned aback by the mass of terminology we tend to throw to them. = The second idea is that we should be more relaxed about notations. To ru= n a riff on Korzybski, notations are not the sounds themselves, and no matt= er how convenient a particular notation may be, no single notation is neccessary. For example, attempts to standardize Just intonation with Johnston's or my own or some other notation should be discouraged in favo= r of getting players to think flexibly about pitch in general. Flexible notational will only follow from such a precondition. As another example,= the continuous claims for priority in graphing techniques on this list don't lead anywhere (or at least anywhere previously unvisited by Riemann= or Tanaka or Wilson...). As some one has recently pointed out, triangulating a lattice is an obvious idea (as it was to Tanaka a century= ago).