TOP TEN

Today I renewed my copy of Easley Blackwood's "The Structure of
Recognizable Diatonic Tunings" for about the twenty second time.The
Head Librarian took one look at it, stepped back and said, "Oh! Easley
Blackwood, I know him. I met him in Chicago." So we had a very pleasant
conversation about how nice American people are and how clever they are.
I told him that if the Americans I know had their way his library would
be filled with tuning theory books, strange scores and even stranger
CDs. Anyway as he controls the purse strings I am going to request that
he spends some tax-payers' money on JI/Microtonal music.

I would be extremely grateful if any of you can take the time to post
your top ten (or thereabouts) CDs and top ten books and/or scores with
references if possible. I could then draw up a shortlist and charm him
into 'branching out' a little. I think Blackwood's own studies would be
appropriate. Does anyone have the details? Also, Neil Haverstick might
care to suggest one of his own excellent recordings.

Thank you in advance for any efforts you might make to assist me.

--- In tuning@egroups.com, Alison Monteith <alison.monteith3@w...>
wrote:

http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/13678

> Today I renewed my copy of Easley Blackwood's "The Structure of
> Recognizable Diatonic Tunings" for about the twenty second time.

Wow... and that's all it took? Probably a "refresher math" course
might be a requisite somewhere between the twenty-first and
twenty-second read... (I'm speaking for myself!)
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Joseph Pehrson

Thanks to everyone who recommended JI/Microtonal recordings and books.
Carl Lumma asked if I had any suggestions for him to review. You might
have covered this one but 'Early Music' by the Kronos Quartet has some
Guillaume de Machaut and Harry Partch items which are of tuning
interest. At a guess I would say that the Machaut Kyrie uses Pythagorean
ratios and the Two Studies on Greek Scales (arr. Ben Johnston) indeed
use the properly tuned Greek scales. Further analysis awaits. The CD is
on Nonesuch Records 1997.