TUNING digest 1189

i wrote a multimedia document (book+cdrom)
about the mathematical foundations
of musical tuning systems.

Erich Neuwirth
Musical Temperaments
Springer-Verlag
ISBN 3-211-83040-5

it is a college level introductory text,
target audience also nonmajors in music.

it will be available in about 2 weeks.

meanwhile, you can have an eye and ear at an electronic brochure
with a music example played in different tunings
(through the midi part of you gm compliant sound card).
windows 95 and nt only, sorry for that.

this brochure is available at

http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/musicfun/tundemo/

at this sunsite, you also can find a web based implementation
of mozart's dice minuet (which is not about tuning,
but good musical fun).

and some more musical stuff.

feedback is welcome.

erich neuwirth

--
Erich Neuwirth
Computer Supported Didactics Working Group, University of Vienna
Currently Visiting Professor at the
National Institute of Multimedia Education, Chiba, Japan
Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at



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>Like Partch, he realized such Harmonic Constructs were not scales and
added >first the 6 pitches of the 9 limit plus the 21/20 and the 16/15 and
their >inversions which he

No, but like Partch, I recognize that the harmonic and subharmonic series
segments contained within the diamond are scales (as you use the term).

>Is it too silly to expect that such a work will be realised in 7-limit JI
by >operatically trained singers given their irresistible inclination for
>vibrato?

It is silly to expect opera singers to perform any music with harmonic
accuracy. They are trained to deliver melodies, and these before the
invention of the amplifier. Try a choir.

>I have to disagree here. The word microtonal definitely needs to be on the
>front jacket. The tuning email address will mean nothing to 99.9% of our
>customers. Only after they buy the cd will they realize its significance.

I don't have my copy yet (which I paid for in March), and I wasn't a
contributor, but I don't think that either the email address or the word
microtonal should be on the cover. Music should stand on its own.

>This is a point that should be repeated more often. The early music
>community has been intensely engaged with questions of intonation, at least
>since Wesley Kuhnle's pioneering efforts in the 1950's.

Actually since forever, since no clavichord tuning speciallty has ever
existed. The comment was clearly about modern pianos only, since they are
the only acoustic keyboard instruments that will hold a tune long enough to
make specialist tuners affordable.

>no matter how convenient a particular notation may be, no single notation is
>neccessary. For example, attempts to standardize Just intonation with
>Johnston's or my own or some other notation should be discouraged in favor
>of getting players to think flexibly about pitch in general.

Brother, I'll agree with this!

Carl