source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 21:18:34 +0200 Subject: Re: World Harmony Project Tuning Digest 1145 From: "Andrew L. Kaye" --------------E35D027D98FDCB5804E24208 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was interested in the comments of Denny Genovese, and the "World Harmony Project" he directs. I visited their site at http://www.afn.org/~sejic and found these comments: "JUST INTONATION is a musical term. It is the practice of tuning musical intervals by means of whole-number ratios of frequencies. This allows the production of chords and scales which are more resonant and have finer resolution than those produced in the more common, equal tempered tuning system. This is the natural tendency of singers, string players and any other musician who is not bound by the confines of frets or keys that force the use of non-just intervals. It is therefore the starting place from which all indigenous musical traditions began." [Italics mine]. I am wondering whether Denny or any other contributor to this list would be interested in providing evidence for these last statements, as they apply to all musicians in all societies at all times, from the beginning of human (and animal?) history. Thanks. --------------E35D027D98FDCB5804E24208 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was interested in the comments of Denny Genovese, and the "World
Harmony Project" he directs.  I visited their site at
http://www.afn.org/~sejic and found these comments: "JUST INTONATION is
a musical term. It is the practice of tuning musical intervals by means
of whole-number ratios of frequencies. This allows the production of
chords and scales which are more resonant and have finer resolution than
those produced in the more common, equal tempered tuning system. This is
the natural tendency of singers, string players and any other musician
who is not bound by the confines of frets or keys that force the use of
non-just intervals. It is therefore the starting place from which all
indigenous musical traditions began." [Italics mine].  I am wondering
whether Denny or any other contributor to this list would be interested
in providing evidence for these last statements, as they apply to all
musicians in all societies at all times, from the beginning of human
(and animal?) history.  Thanks. --------------E35D027D98FDCB5804E24208-- SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: sejic@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1145 PostedDate: 02-08-97 19:20:28 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $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: 04-08-97 13:19:38-04-08-97 13:19:39,04-08-97 13:18:12-04-08-97 13:18:12 DeliveredDate: 04-08-97 13:18:12 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C12564E9.003E1C5C; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:18:25 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00368; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 19:20:28 +0200 Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 19:20:28 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00327 Received: (qmail 19077 invoked from network); 2 Aug 1997 17:19:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Aug 1997 17:19:42 -0000 Message-Id: <199708021716.NAA20703@primary-name.ufl.edu> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu