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Re: Margo Schulter's article

🔗Robert Walker <robert_walker@rcwalker.freeserve.co.uk>

3/5/2001 9:47:48 AM

Hi Margo,

Added it to the tree.

Will be able to try out the ascii numbering soon - thanks for giving
one to try it with.

This made me laugh!

> A group of xenharmonicists who cannot agree among themselves as to
> whether a major third should ideally be tuned at 386 cents, 418 cents,
> or 435 cents can nevertheless say "We're all non-400-cents!"

> The next step, however, might be to realize, "Hey, 400 cents is
> interestingly different, somewhere `between the cracks' of the smaller
> or larger interval sizes (maybe both) we typically use -- and that
> makes it `microtonal!'"

> The adversary, then, is not 12-tET or any other tuning, but
> intonational monopoly, in other words, paucitonality. The problem is
> not how to distinguish between 12-tET and the "microtonal" universe,
> but rather how to put 12-tET squarely within that universe, somewhere
> on one arm of a certain spiral galaxy of equal tunings.

Robert