alternate tuning comments

I've actually been listening to Joe Beck for some years now...he is a
monster New York jazz/session/rock player, for sure. But, I really doubt
if he's playing in another tuning system...that would be great indeed,
but most likely it's a REtuned 12 eq axe...Hstick

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Having played the prelude to Tristan (piano reduction) many times, I hear it in a minor. I don't think that this I don't think that this is too much of a stretch since all of the main cadences are either on I iv (IV), V and VI (deceptive)
I am sure one can produce copious analytical documentation to support the a-minor key area, an octotonic basis or, what seems a stretch to me, an atonal reading of the piece. After all is said, the question is: What are you hearing and, perhaps, why?


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>Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:34:23 -0700
>From: smith@cnmat.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald Smith)
>Having played the prelude to Tristan (piano reduction) many times,
>I hear it in a minor. I don't think that this I don't think that
>this is too much of a stretch since all of the main cadences are
>either on I iv (IV), V and VI (deceptive)
>I am sure one can produce copious analytical documentation to support
>thea-minor key area, an octotonic basis or, what seems a stretch to
>me, an atonal reading of the piece.
>After all is said, the question is: What are you hearing
>and, perhaps, why?

That sure seems to be the question on everyone's mind in this list. That's
why I posted it. Has less to do with Wagner's music, than the trend he
embodied of artists inevstigating new proving ground, such as xenharmony as
it blossomed in the post-Romantic era, along with Nazism and
metamathematics.
Other tuning readers might notice that the whole shooting match was
considered a Wagner analysis. Few more days until MayDay.
Rick http://www.garlic.com/~ribarbe/mcd.html

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