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TUNING digest 1198

🔗Daniel Wolf <DJWOLF_MATERIAL@...>

10/6/1997 8:30:37 AM
J. Reinhard wrote:




If you have a 'yardstick' that is unable to make distinctions when
comparing things, such as this 'yardstick' that 'measures' 'all' music as=

'microtonal', then one is right to wonder about the utility of the
'yardstick'. =


If we are to follow Reinhard's logic, if 'all' music is 'microtonal', the=
n
then word 'microtonal' is essentially robbed of its semantic content. Wh=
at
possible distinction might then belong an ''American Festival of All
Music''?

Once again, I make my modest plea: In an age when too many words have bee=
n
stripped of their meanings (remember ''liberal''?), let's not lose the wo=
rd
microtone (and cognates) as well!

DJWOLF
Frankfurt =


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