source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:51:49 -0800 Subject: Re: pure or just From: Johnny Reinhard The early nod to the English use of just harmonies, implying at the very least a decidedly smaller third than the ditone on the continent, is here quoted from the Strunk collection of first hand accounts on music of the Middle Ages. The English Origin of Polyphonic Music, attributed to Giraldus Cambrensis: "Descriptio Cambriae" (12th Century) "The Britons do not sing in unison, like the inhabitants of other countries, but in many different parts. So that when a company of singers among the common people meets to sing as is usual in this country, as many different parts are heard as there are performers, who all at length unite in consonance, with organic sweetness." What do you think, sound just to y'all? Johnny Reinhard 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@ios.com Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 23:17 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05845; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 23:20:11 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05914 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA20308; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:20:08 -0800 Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:20:08 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu