Fwd: The tuning group at Yahoo.

--- In MicroMadeEasy@yahoogroups.com, "robert thomas martin"
<robertthomasmartin@...> wrote:

This group appears to have degenerated into trivialities. It might have
quantity but it appears that it lacks quality. A pity since it has
carried the burden of supporting microtonality for so long.

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---This group appears to have degenerated into trivialities.

Robert,
   Agreed...in fact, honestly, many of the discussions such as "should I express my scales in fractions or cents or both and why?" or a book's worth of discussion of "why does a major triad sound better than a minor one" seems quite excessive. 

   Personally, I've tried to stick with new tunings I have worked on and give examples.  I never intended, for example, threads about my scales to be de-railed and turned into topics like those above.  If someone doesn't like the form my scale is in they can ask "can someone repost this as fractions?" and then have someone reply with the list rather than spend 10+ messages arguing why I'm being "ignorant" for not posting my scale in a way they want it.
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   Pardon my anger, but I really don't give beyond one message's worth about why the way I notated my scale is weird vs. the traditional way...I just want to know what people like/don't about it and how it can be made to be better and/or expanded so far as musical theory.

  Robert, if you or anyone else think I am one of those responsible for this excess of "trivialities", please give your best sage advice how to stop my threads from being de-railed into such things.  I certainly don't come in intending that to happen.

    I am just trying to develop something, and not meaning to start nasty long chains about topics that are often both overly subjective and tangential to what I originally was discussing.  BTW, I started my own tuning group as well for the reason of avoiding this, but no one joined.

-Michael

--- On Sun, 2/1/09, robert thomas martin <robertthomasmartin@...> wrote:

From: robert thomas martin <robertthomasmartin@...>
Subject: [MMM] Fwd: The tuning group at Yahoo.
To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 1:22 AM

--- In MicroMadeEasy@ yahoogroups. com, "robert thomas martin"

<robertthomasmartin @...> wrote:

This group appears to have degenerated into trivialities. It might have

quantity but it appears that it lacks quality. A pity since it has

carried the burden of supporting microtonality for so long.

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--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sheiman
<djtrancendance@...> wrote:
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> ---This group appears to have degenerated into trivialities.
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> Robert,
>    Agreed...in fact, honestly, many of the discussions such
as "should I express my scales in fractions or cents or both and
why?" or a book's worth of discussion of "why does a major triad
sound better than a minor one" seems quite excessive. 
>
>    Personally, I've tried to stick with new tunings I have worked
on and give examples.  I never intended, for example, threads about
my scales to be de-railed and turned into topics like those above. 
If someone doesn't like the form my scale is in they can ask "can
someone repost this as fractions?" and then have someone reply with
the list rather than spend 10+ messages arguing why I'm
being "ignorant" for not posting my scale in a way they want it.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>    Pardon my anger, but I really don't give beyond one message's
worth about why the way I notated my scale is weird vs. the
traditional way...I just want to know what people like/don't about it
and how it can be made to be better and/or expanded so far as musical
theory.
>
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>   Robert, if you or anyone else think I am one of those responsible
for this excess of "trivialities", please give your best sage advice
how to stop my threads from being de-railed into such things.  I
certainly don't come in intending that to happen.
>
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>     I am just trying to develop something, and not meaning to start
nasty long chains about topics that are often both overly subjective
and tangential to what I originally was discussing.  BTW, I started
my own tuning group as well for the reason of avoiding this, but no
one joined.
>
> -Michael
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> Subject: [MMM] Fwd: The tuning group at Yahoo.
> To: MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 1:22 AM
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> --- In MicroMadeEasy@ yahoogroups. com, "robert thomas
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> This group appears to have degenerated into trivialities. It might
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> quantity but it appears that it lacks quality. A pity since it has
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> From Robert. If you want to post information and/or music without
overmuch discussion about it then you are welcome to join
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