String Music

Folks:

Some (make that "many") years ago my wife, Pat, wrote a thesis on extended
violin (string) performance techniques. Many people through the years have
used the thesis for reference, especially for young composers. We are finally
getting around to actually publishing this thing.

We have decided to add two new chapters: one on tuning (including scordatura
stuff) and intonation and a second on real-time DSP in performance.

If anyone has or can recommend tuning or DSP related works for any string
(violin/ vla/ vcl/cb) we would be very interested in hearing from you. We
have several interested publishers but have not yet committed to a contract-
anyone submitting a piece, whether it is used or not, will get a gratis
copy of this thing.

Please respond directly to us at strange@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu.

thank you very much and have a great new year!

Allen and Patricia Strange

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T. Sage Harms (3215 Lyndale Avenue South; Minneapolis, MN 55408; USA)
wrote an article in Steel Guitar World magazine issue #12, concentrating
mostly upon pythagorean tuning on the steel guitar. Perhaps that's a
start.

As for the status of Justonic Tuning's software products, I *think* that
it's not quite out yet, because they offered to let me beta-test it.


Please forgive me if I sound overpicky or whatever, but I think
personally that we ought to be cautious of substituting "pure" for "just".
If we already have a term for a concept, I think we'd be better off not add
synonyms to the terminology soup.

Or perhaps John S. was just using the word more as a generic adjective
rather than as a synonym for "just"?

In the El Paso gig, Neil H. pointed out that he likes "pure" over "just"
on the grounds that it's a better description of the concept. Well, that
may be a matter of perspective.

"Pure" is reasonable from the perspective of "beatless" harmony, but
some might argue that just intonation is less "pure" from the perspective
of having varying melodic whole- and half-step sizes in a diatonic
framework. Perhaps that's a short-sighted argument, but still I think that
terminology ought to be based as much as possible upon historical
precedent. As far as I know there is no historical precedent for a
specific meaning for the word "pure" in tuning theory.

What does everybody else think?

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