Re: the reductionism of Eytan Agmon

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:
> on 5/27/03 8:35 PM, Jonathan M. Szanto wrote:
>
> > And I myself don't know the writings/postings of Eytan Agmon.
>
> He's a well-known and bright Israeli music
> psychologist/aestheticist/researcher.
>
> Gene is refering to his controversial reductionist ideas. Not sure whihc
> article he's thinking of but for an example of this particular line
of his
> thinking, see his article "Functional Harmony Revisited", in Music
Theory
> Spectrum 17/2 (Fall, 1995), pages 196-214.

I'm referring to "Numbers and the Western-Tone System: Beyond
Psychoacoustics", a talk he gave at the American Mathematical Society
meeting in Baton Rouge which had a section on music theory. Paul sent
me a copy of the write-up. Eytan thinks he may have discovered an
innate feature of the human mind. I claim he's discovered that
meantone is what the Western tone-system happens to be, and is a
linear temperament.