Re: [tuning] Re: cents and centsability.2

Ever since Harry Partch wrote Showhorses in the Concert Ring, musicians could
be seen in a new, particular way. 6 or more college years devoted to
reading music made standard, conventional 12-TET a reality for several
generations of professional musicians.

Horses wear blinders to focus their eyes and minds linearly. And this is the
principle of placing accidentals in front of notes. Already, there are
"normal" 12-TET notes that have "0" changes from the grid. Would you have a
"0" placed above, leave it blank, or put something else like "N" for normal?

Using a half of the conventional system for accidental landmarks, aid the
"showhorse" in rapidly playing notated music accurately. Perhaps you guys
are obsessing too much on the quartertone symbols as representing quartertone
tuning. These personal dislikes of 24-TET tuning need not impair what is
still a 1200-TET method.

Relegating these considerations to "personal preference" may have the
consequence of disregarding a player's orientation all together. In other
words, I will be able to play any cents specificity required of me by a
composer, however, if I must always calculate notations differently, my speed
in learning will be impacted negatively.

Johnny Reinhard

--- In tuning@egroups.com, Afmmjr@a... wrote:

http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/12443

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> Relegating these considerations to "personal preference" may have
the consequence of disregarding a player's orientation all together.
In other words, I will be able to play any cents specificity required
of me by a composer, however, if I must always calculate notations
differently, my speed in learning will be impacted negatively.

But Johnny... this statement of your seems to be supporting MY OWN
argument rather than yours... Are you sure you didn't "switch sides"
without realizing it??
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Joseph Pehrson