RE: What Is Microtonal Music?

Johnny Reinhard wrote:

>Out-of-tune amateurity, or pure pitch error, is something I experince
with
>kids. In the world of professional music, musicians are admirable in
>their abilities to shape pitch.

Apparently you dot not attend many orchestral and chamber music concerts.
Out-of-tune playing, even in professional ensembles, is painfully
common, in my experience.


>The AFMM is what it is: a forum for non-12ET musics from a myriad of
both
>tunings and styles. And yes, I do consider 12ET microtonal.

Then why do you exclude 12ET music from AFMM? And what do you consider
*not* microtonal? Wouldn't it be more accurate to call it the "American
Festival of non-12ET Music" (the word "microtone" being redundant)?

Given the precision of your "yardstick", there isn't much 12ET music to
exclude, actually. 20th century organ music (and piano music, if you
consider a piano with stretched octaves still to be in 12ET) and
serialism come to mind, but I can't think of much else that has ever
actually been *performed* in 12ET to within 1 cent. (Don't guitarists,
like violinists, normally tune the open strings pure?)


Gordon Collins
gordon_collins@jhuapl.edu


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