microtonality/tuning/xenharmonicity in the curriculum

Monz wrote:
>
> Seems like tuning is
> finally creeping into the curriculum. And it's about time.

Yah, here at Columbia, now that Davidovsky has been gone for a few years,
some interesting music has been permitted to develop. There's a few
ex-Lucier students, doing ex-Lucier kinds of things, a bunch of spectral
composers (of course, due to the presence of Tristan Murail on fac here),
and some weirdos like me who are fooling/flirting with JI and various ETs,
or a friend of mine Marcus Bittencourt who's writing a massive radio-opera
with some insane 31-note non-octave [microtonal of course] scales.
Thanassis Rikakis gave a talk at Microfest a month ago that some of you
might have heard. . .

In fact, I'd say there are more people writing microtonal music than
aren't. And those who aren't are feelin' kind of left out. Some old
friends of mine are even kind of bitter about it!

Most of the faculty has no clue what we're up to, but. . .they'll
catch up.

cb

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Christopher Bailey

http://music.columbia.edu/~chris

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--- In tuning@y..., Christopher Bailey <cb202@c...> wrote:

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> Monz wrote:
> >
> > Seems like tuning is
> > finally creeping into the curriculum. And it's about time.
>
> Yah, here at Columbia, now that Davidovsky has been gone for a few
years,some interesting music has been permitted to develop.

Wicked... oh wicked...

Remember, too, that in the "olden days" such luminaries as my
personal mentor (me and a lot of people) Otto Luening were VERY
interested in alternate tunings and electronic music. Otto, as you
recall, wrote the introduction to Harry Partch's GENESIS...

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