microtonality and new music?

>As far as finding a totally new music through microtonal investigations,
>I think thats a bit like an artist deciding to paint in a totally new
>color.

I think the better analogy is that we are learning to paint with a much
larger palette, rather than just a single new color.

-Carl

--- In tuning@egroups.com, Carl Lumma <CLUMMA@N...> wrote:

http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/13233

> >As far as finding a totally new music through microtonal
investigations,
> >I think thats a bit like an artist deciding to paint in a totally
new
> >color.
>
> I think the better analogy is that we are learning to paint with a
much
> larger palette, rather than just a single new color.
>
> -Carl

This makes a lot of sense. I'm tired of a lot of the xenharmonic
deprecations that have been "going down" on this list of late.

It is *NOT* true that one could write the same kind of music in any
system! Sure, a good composer can "bang on a can" and make it sound
interesting... but to use the threadbare system that everybody has
wacked the s... out of again and again. Well, be my guest,
"neoromanticists..."
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