source file: mills3.txt Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:56:39 +0100 Subject: Re: temperaments/reality From: DFinnamore@aol.com Neil Haverstick writes: > ... music possesses a "magic," a quality that transcends logic and > intellect. Whether or not impure tunings twist or distort this magic, or > whether it works regardless of tuning systems, is an area that I'd like > to see more discussion on. For an thorough discussion of that very thing, get Mathieu's new book "Harmonic Experience". It is the most amazing description of how music works of anything I've ever seen. It delves deeply into the way that 12-tET is used to both approximate and ignore 5-limit JI. Perhaps "ignore" is not quite the right word; he explains the uses of 12-tET that cannot be interpreted in terms of JI, as well as those that can be. He also provides a method for internalizing all that stuff, so that you can both feel and analyze what's going on in a piece of music. While it considers only JI and 12-tET, the principles transfer easily to any other tuning. IMHO, it should become the de facto music theory text throughout the Western world. It really does seem that good to me. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Paul Hahn Subject: Re: more consonance and dissonance PostedDate: 27-10-97 15:41:53 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $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: 27-10-97 15:41:21-27-10-97 15:41:22,27-10-97 14:41:57-27-10-97 14:41:57 DeliveredDate: 27-10-97 14:41:57 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125653D.0050AC7D; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:41:10 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA28583; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:41:53 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:41:53 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA28578 Received: (qmail 10123 invoked from network); 27 Oct 1997 06:41:46 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Oct 1997 06:41:46 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu