John, thank you for bringing this to our attention. Interestingly it's something that's been on my mind these days as I've been working on a demo
of my...
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mandlixon
mandldixon@xxxxxx.xxx...
Dec 1, 1999 8:59 am
To do with tuning devices, have many of you used Justonic? I don't have a decent keyboard and wondered whether their virtual keyboard with it's tuning ...
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DWolf77309@...
Dec 1, 1999 12:00 pm
In einer Nachricht vom 12/1/99 4:56:50 AM (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeitschreibt Afmmjr@...: << Over time the meaning of words evolve (or devolve). Once a...
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Afmmjr@xxx.xxx
Dec 1, 1999 2:02 pm
Though I do consider composition to be part of the interest of a discipline of microtonality, at Dan Wolf's suggestion, I will no longer recognize his activity...
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Carl Lumma
clumma@xxx.xxxx
Dec 1, 1999 2:03 pm
... Interesting. I had read only musicology-like essays on this topic. ... The above quote refers more to the meantone aspect of the Hafner article than the...
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DWolf77309@xx.xxx
Dec 1, 1999 2:27 pm
In einer Nachricht vom 12/1/99 3:03:01 PM (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeitschreibt Afmmjr@...: << the "smaller-than-a-semitone" definition of a microtone is...
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John F. Sprague
JSprague@xxxx.xxxxx.x...
Dec 1, 1999 3:02 pm
It's about time that intervals larger than 100 (or perhaps 150) cents were called macrotones so as to distinguish them from smaller intervals (microtones). ...
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Patrick Pagano
ppagano@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 1, 1999 6:25 pm
I think it is nice to see you fellows so heated about a simple request for suggestions for an alternative term. But despite you're explanations etc... You have...
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John Chalmers
jhchalmers@xxxxxxx.xx...
Dec 1, 1999 3:44 pm
I might remind everyone that the late Ivor Darreg invented the term "xenharmonic" to denote music that doesn't sound like music in 12-tone ET. He too was...
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manuel.op.de.coul@xxx...
Dec 1, 1999 4:02 pm
Harold, ... If my understanding of what you want is right, you can also use Scala. Do the FIT command. The output for your first set of intervals is linear...
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Clark
caccola@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 1, 1999 1:25 pm
... It can be misleading but I think it is useful still, like 'octave' (for instance to describe the little blocks on the backs of my keys). In most of these...
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John Starrett
jstarret@xxxx.xxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 5:02 pm
Hey y'all- I have added a section to my page called Microtonal Hardware. I have only one entry at the moment, the TC Vocal Intonation Processor. As usual, any...
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alves@xxxxx.xx.xxx.xx...
alves@xxxxx.xx.xxx.xx...
Dec 1, 1999 5:51 pm
... Bach could have arranged them by 5ths, and I seem to recall that certain historical precedents to the WTC (Fischer? Kuhnau?) were arranged that way -- yet...
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alves@xxxxx.xx.xxx.xx...
alves@xxxxx.xx.xxx.xx...
Dec 1, 1999 6:04 pm
I forwarded the question about Carillo's use of the word "microtone" to my friend and Carillo expert Jerry Benjamin (gbenjami@...). Here's ... ...
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Groger c/o Warrior Pr...
warriorprod@xxxxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 11:30 am
... .... don't know if it helps but in Genesis of a Music on page 154 Partch mentions "340 interval values within the 2/1" He also refers then to appendix I...
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Groger c/o Warrior Pr...
warriorprod@xxxxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 11:33 am
Hi, zANG posted the two internet sites regarding tuning for me. Thank you. Still maybe you can help me and give me some names of "big" authors in the field of ...
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John A. deLaubenfels
jadl@xxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 1, 1999 6:41 pm
Paul, thanks for your response! No doubt I'm partly to blame for any electronic "guns drawn" standoff we may have been having. I want to address some of the...
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Benjamin R Sommer
bsommer@xxxxx.xxxxx.x...
Dec 1, 1999 7:08 pm
Check out Easley Blackwood, "The structure of recognizable diatonic tunings", published by someone I forget. Aside from Ben Johnston, he probably knows more...
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DWolf77309@xx.xxx
Dec 1, 1999 7:29 pm
In einer Nachricht vom 12/1/99 4:25:29 PM (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeitschreibt ppagano@...: << You have chosen to honk your'e horns and never...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 7:28 pm
Harold wrote, ... Harold, that changes things! You previously said 4/3 times the 5 kinds of ... OK -- here goes: For the 5 thirds alone: 21.72-tET max. err....
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 7:36 pm
Daniel Wolf wrote, ... anyone ... The best piece I've written in 22-tET so far actually uses the smallest interval almost exclusively in the melody. It is...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 7:41 pm
Carl Lumma wrote, ... Well, I think they draw too specific a conclusion from too varied a set of data (i.e., pieces that were originally written in different...
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DWolf77309@xx.xxx
Dec 1, 1999 7:55 pm
Just to throw a wrench in the works: Rudolph Rasch, who has the credentials of a real 12tet skeptic, has studied the whole history of circular collections...
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Zhang2323@xxx.xxx
Dec 1, 1999 8:04 pm
In a message dated 12/01/1999 06:06:53 PM, ... I think that the emphasis on "big" authors is rather canonical... & comical. But... if you are seeking...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 8:00 pm
John Starrett wrote, ... My list so far: 22-tET 7-string electric guitar Ensoniq VFX-SD synthesizer Coming soon: Cheapo fretless bass waiting to be marked up...
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Zhang2323@xxx.xxx
Dec 1, 1999 8:18 pm
... <snip> ... *musical mad scientist hyena-like cackling* That is so funny... I imagine some of us also attempt throat-singing (i.e. F# @ 11:8) in showers &...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 8:16 pm
Daniel Wolf wrote, ... all ... As I wrote in my response to Margo, I strongly agree. ... that ... (the ... (or ... I think that the compositional problems that...
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Clark
caccola@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 1, 1999 5:20 pm
... Hi, Most of mine are under construction, so I'll list them in order of completeness (the last ones are barely begun). Kurzweil K150(fs) 19tET treble viol ...
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 8:17 pm
Bosanquet is famous for having advocated 612-tET....
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Paul H. Erlich
PErlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 1, 1999 8:19 pm
I wrote, ... Meantone is already temperament -- I meant "circular temperament would have been a necessity for much of his music as well" -- since Mozart wasn't...
