Fwd: (amb) La Monte Young in the Bay Area...

I thought I'd forward this to the Tuning digest.

Be good and and when I get caught up on reading Tuning
digest - maybe be I'll tell you all about the microtonal-ness
of recovery at Newark U. hospital.

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From: djones@jfku.edu (David Jones)
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Date: 96-11-18 01:27:47 EST

So, I'm sitting here listening to a "snippet" of "The Well-Tuned Piano" on
Carl Stone's "Ears Wide Open" and I thought I would post a short message
about a concert of his work "Chronos Kristalla" to be performed Sunday,
Nov. 24, 1996 at 8pm at Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley. Commissioned exclusively
for Kronos Quartet.

Tickets are 26 smackeroos (gosh, I wish I still could get student
discounts!) and the concert is part of the Other Minds Festival.

I have no idea what the piece sounds like (this is the West Coast Premiere
of the work), but as someone who had the pleasure of seeing Kronos 7 times
(including the entire "Salome Dances for Peace"), I heartedly recommend it.

--
David "it finally stopped raining -- for now" Jones

onnow: see above...




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>I think Brian's point is that music at the time tended to have at least 14
>different notated notes, so that if meantone tuning were to be used, the
>12-note keyboard would lead to some horrible wolves. Just tuning of course
>would require vastly more keys, assuming it could be considered a
>satisfactory tuning (which I don't happen to believe).

14 notated pitches per octave in 1850? Split keys were certainly used in
the 17th and 18th centuries, but 12 keys per octave was still the norm. 1/4
comma meantone with 12 keys per octave is still quite usable on the vast
majority of music written in the 18th century, and well temperaments
rendered 12 even more useful. I can see how mass production necessitated
standardization of the construction of keyboards, but I remain unconvinced
that 12TET is the only possible (or even most likely) result of such
standardization.

Bill

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If Brian thinks that a 12 tone mean-tone-tuned keyboard leads
to wolves, he hasn't played much music of the period when
meantone was in use. I'm working on William Byrd's harpsichord
music right now (1543-1623), using pure quarter-comma meantone,
and there are NO wolves.

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