Miscellany

PaulE: I don't recall exactly what I said or wrote to Brian, but I
did mention the problem of inharmonic complexes and residue pitches.
Beyond that I can't say.

As I recall, Steve McAdams (SP?) showed that simultaneous and
coincident modulation of the partials of inharmonic spectra leads to
a sensation of fusion.

With considerable misgivings, I am posting two of Brian's messages on
the adequacy of the bibliographies in certain of Paul Rapoport's tuning
theory papers. As a sometime author myself, I would like to say that
space alone does does not permit every paper to list every conceivably
relevant reference. What an author should do is to list the most
pertinent
references in the expectation that truly interested readers will pursue
topic and author threads themselves. Bibliographies are primarily
intended
to give credit to previous investigators and data to support the author's
conclusions or hypotheses, not to filibuster for the reader's own
concerns.
Unless the paper is a general review article, the bibliography does not
have to cover the entire field of xenharmonics, only those items specific
to the topic at hand.

Paul Rapoport and I agree that Brian's attacks verge on being slanderous,
but like many of Brian's other papers, they contain interesting and useful
material beneath the hyperbolic rhetoric. Brian has uncovered and
described
some useful references which might otherwise be overlooked by other
scholars, though some appear to me to be redundant and repetitive (I've
read Viggo Brun's articles in several languages and have found that the
most important details of his version of the Euclidean algorithm are
expressed equivalently).


Follow-up on Gamelan posts:

From: Susilo Joko
Subject: Re: Electroacoustic Composition from Gamelan

'mbat larasati in the gamelan as far as I know is for shadow puppet
performances for example; gamelan STSI Solo, TBS Solo, Semarangan (Ki.
Nartosabdo), Notodiningratan and almost pupeteer's gamelan.

Joko Susilo
29b Spencer St
Andersons Bay
Dunedin
New Zealand

Tel. (03) 4544403
Fax. (03) 479 8885

E-mail susilo.joko@stonebow.otago.ac.nz


--John



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