12 et only

Ladies and Gentlemen-
The current practice of teaching only 12 tet music in schools,
colleges and universities is akin to teaching only the mathematics of
whole numbers and claiming to be teaching mathematics. I could teach a
mathematics course like this and justify it by claiming "Well, the only
mathematics the general public likes and understands is recreational
number theory. All the great theorems of mathematics are number
theoretic, and we don't have time to teach analysis, algebraic topology
or complex variable theory anyway."
But I would be wrong.
John Starrett

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