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TUNING digest 1341

🔗mfh2@cornell.edu (martin hatch)

3/2/1998 10:31:25 AM
I recently enrolled in the tuning digest list. I'm interested in describing
the parameters of tuning that operate in solo unaccompanied singing. A
number of years ago, I looked at this in the songs of several women singers
from central Java, Indonesia. Now I'm looking at unaccompanied solo song
in various styles of euro-american-world music. Can anyone direct me to a
publication that gives a table of the cent values that operate in a
just-tuned scale, in comparison, say, to other scales? I have the
marvelous table called "Microtonal Music," which was "coordinated by Tui
St. George Tucker, Robert Jurgrau, and Johnny Reinhard," that appeared on
cover of Ear Magazine East 7/5 (11-1/1982-83). Have there been any
critiques of this table, or has it been superceded?
Thanks, M Hatch