source file: mills3.txt Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 19:56:04 +0100 Subject: Daphnis and Chloe From: "Patrick Ozzard-Low" Dear Tuning, I wrote: > But this seems not to be true of the Kyma flute. Sorry! In case I confused anyone : of course I meant the Kingma (Osten Brannen) flute, not a simulation of a flute using Kyma (the digital platform). I seem to have confused Johnny! ;-) > When asked which instrument is the hardest by a young, naive individual. > The honest answer is that they are all equally hard in the long run. > While a harp string is easy to pluck, this easy challenge is compounded > later on by the rapidity of of multiple harp simultanaities, artistically > rendered...and invariably by memory. No! you mean there's a learning curve to learning an instrument!? Well I'll be darned.... and you've got to memorise! well, I didn't understand the relevance of that before!;-) > I honestly think it's not that hard to learn microtonal playing on > conventional instruments. Agreed - up to a point....but.... Last night there was a performance of Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe on BBC Radio. And I thought to myself: there's no way that something of this nature could be brought off with conventional existing instruments, if it was composed in, say 32-ET (which can give, for example, a glorious mix of Western and Eastern harmony...). No way. The thing would be completely fudged, even if it were a whole orchestra of superstars... Ok, maybe you could do it after 5 years of rehearsals... But perhaps I 'harp' on.... All best, Patrick Ozzard-Low SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Johnny Reinhard Subject: Re: Daphnis and Chloe PostedDate: 19-11-97 22:03:05 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: 19-11-97 22:01:39-19-11-97 22:01:40,19-11-97 22:01:47-19-11-97 22:01:48 DeliveredDate: 19-11-97 22:01:48 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 C1256554.00737FA5; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:01:33 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03245; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:03:05 +0100 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:03:05 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03243 Received: (qmail 10413 invoked from network); 19 Nov 1997 13:03:01 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Nov 1997 13:03:01 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu