TONICS WANDERING

Yes, and because they do a Lingua Franca notation that centers all
musicians with the cents system of 1200 dieses to the octave is
appropriate. More than I had previously realized.

Since a string players can roll a finger to get about 27 cents, and wind
players cannot merely "press and blow" and hope to get within 27 cents of
given pitch target, cents tunes their mind up (not the instrument).

Paul effectively pointed out to me that one need not use numbers higer
than 25 if noteheads are enharmonically chosen. In other words, since I
use notated quartertones and all deviations are an eighthtone or less
from any particular quartertone, using more than 25 cents would seem moot.

Thinking further, I still like using a number up to 49 cents. Wind
players remember new tuning relationships in part by new fingerings. The
motoric, physical memory is most valuable in learning new microtonal
music. Sometimes the allocation of a single finger to an established
fingering cements the new pitch to the mind. Additionally, unneccessary
enharmonicism might cloud clear tonal relationships that would gain from
easy recognition.

Johnny Reinhard
Director
American Festival of Microtonal Music
318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW
New York, New York 10021 USA
(212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495
reinhard@ios.com


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Brian will be happy to learn that at SJSU, due largely to the efforts of
Brian Belet, we have thrown out the "worst" of the traditional music
theory core, keeping, hopefully the "best"- the first week or so of which is
learning and exploring the ramifications of the harmonic overstone system and
learning one's ratios.

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