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> Topic No. 1
>
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:27:26 -0400
> From: Daniel Wolf
> To: "INTERNET:tuning@eartha.mills.edu"
> Subject: TUNING digest 1199
> Message-ID: <199710070927_MC2-2315-9456@compuserve.com>
>
> D. Wolf wrote:
>
> I am unable to refer to the Harvard dictionary, but I find much music
> made in Egypt to be
> significant.... And while I cannot recall melodic use of microtones
> (the
> Muezzin calls aside; the faithfull would not consider this to be
> ''music'=
> in the first place!), I have often heard intervals used that differ
> from
> diatonic pythagorean intervals by microtones, thus the music can be
> heard as having
> a microtonal dimension, and quite possibly one that goes back to the
> chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient mediterranean.

So, according to D. Wolf, if a scale does not use an interval of less
than a half step, but uses intervals that differ from "Pythagorean
intervals" by "microtones", the music is therefore microtonal? This
seems to me to be the same kind of logic J. Reinhard is pursuing, and
which Mr. Wolf is vehemently objecting. Interesting.

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Topic No. 1

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:27:26 -0400

From: Daniel Wolf <DJWOLF_MATERIAL@compuserve.com>

To: "INTERNET:tuning@eartha.mills.edu" <tuning@eartha.mills.edu>

Subject: TUNING digest 1199

Message-ID: <199710070927_MC2-2315-9456@compuserve.com>

D. Wolf wrote:

I am unable to refer to the Harvard dictionary, but I find much music
made in Egypt to be

significant.... And while I cannot recall melodic use of microtones
(the

Muezzin calls aside; the faithfull would not consider this to be ''music'=

in the first place!), I have often heard intervals used that differ
from

diatonic pythagorean intervals by microtones, thus the music can
be heard as having

a microtonal dimension, and quite possibly one that goes back
to the

chromatic and enharmonic genera of the ancient mediterranean.

So, according to D. Wolf, if a scale does not use an interval of less than
a half step, but uses intervals that differ from "Pythagorean intervals"
by "microtones", the music is therefore microtonal? This seems to
me to be the same kind of logic J. Reinhard is pursuing, and which Mr.
Wolf is vehemently objecting. Interesting.

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>Try the Sachs-Hornbostel System. Experimental Musical Instruments
>magazine publishes a wall chart with it on, but I'm sure there are
>other sources as well. More info on ExpMusInsts at
>http://www.thecombine.com/emi

That web site URL has changed a little bit- it's now

http://www.windworld.com/emi/

Another nice site that Warren pointed me to recently is David Dunn's
algorithmic arts site. It contains the Music Machine programming system
for algorithmic composition and other goodies.

http://algoart.com/

Steven Curtin

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