Real-time MIDI JI on the Web

Hello everyone,

I have put up a new MIDI file "Chimes" at the Cinema Volta Web Page at
http://www.users.interport.net/~jmax. "Chimes" is in Just Intonation, but
can be played without the use of special tuning tables. You will need the
Crescendo! plug-in for Netscape 2.0 (or better) and some sort of General
MIDI player to play this. Just follow the instruction on the page.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Producing Director/New Technology, The Kitchen http://www.panix.com/kitchen

jmax@interport.net http://www.interport.net/~jmax/



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Dear Ben,

May I suggest "Greek Musical Writings" I and especially II- Harmonic and
Acoustic Theory edited by Andrew Barker, Cambridge University Press,
1989. It contains just about all there is.

Schlesinger comes under fire for making conclusions regarding tuning
based on the aulos, but fails to take in to acount reeds, embouchure, and
air velocity. Aulos tuning is implied in the title of the book that she
wrote, hence the problem.

Of most interest to me was discovering the secret meeting between the
Thracian kitharist Timotheus, just banned from Sparta for polluting music
with new notes, and Euripides, living in a cave on Salamis Island in
self-exile. Euripides was not only a class-A tragedian, but he was
composer of music for his own works, and was known to favor the
enharmonic genus (e.g. the oldest of the genera, and the one to contain
"quartertones"). This meeting signals the beginning of microtonal music
cooperation and mutual understanding.

Johnny Reinhard
Director
American Festival of Microtonal Music
318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW
New York, New York 10021 USA
(212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495
reinhard@styx.ios.com


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