Good-bye, and a question...

To all the Tuning List Inhabitants:

It's been a fine 2.5+ years, but it is time for me to take leave of the
tuning list. Too many numbers, not nearly enough music. While this works
for some, it doesn't for me. However, just before I vacate the premises,
I'd like to solicit opinions and ideas regarding a basic background on
Harry Partch's theory and practice of just intonation. What I would like to
know is:

If you were to construct a basic FAQ page regarding JI, *especially* as it
related to Partch's work, what would be the shortest list of topics you
feel it would require to be a valid resource?

I have long abstained from putting direct information on Corporeal Meadows
about the use of JI in Partch's music (preferring instead to point to other
sites that were intonation-centric), but I feel it is time to have at least
a 'Beginner's Guide' to Just Intonation. While I want it to be brief, and
still give resources for those that wish more depth, I do not want to gloss
over what *this* (the tuning list) community would consider the essentials.
During the years of working with both Harry and the ensemble, I might have
taken the theoretical aspects a little for granted, as they were in my ears
most all of the time. Now, however, I feel a need to assist those who might
be new to this particular corner of music/art/ritual, and I want to proceed
appropriately.

Feel free to write me off-list, but I'll still continue my list
subscription until it looks like responses have dried up (if you feel
others would find them of interest). I'd also like to take this opportunity
to publicly thank the many fine people who have posted here for a wealth of
learning and sharing, and I wish you all the best of intonational systems,
in whatever form you find/create them.

Warmly,
Jon
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Jonathan M. Szanto : Corporeal Meadows - Harry Partch, online.
jszanto@adnc.com : http://www.corporeal.com/
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Jon, I would love to take some passages from Genesis of a Music that
represent the real "meat" of Partch's theories, and flesh them out with
some commentary. I feel that most theorists misinterpret Partch and
would love to do my part in helping people understand the ideas of a man
who really _listened_. Where Partch contradicted himself, it was in
theoretical areas rather removed from the actual experience of
listening, tuning, and hearing consonance and dissonance. When the
latter is taken as the foundation, many of the contradictions can be
resolved, I feel.